Sentence examples for historically disenfranchised from inspiring English sources

My definition of equity is recognition, acceptance, and pursuit of initiatives designed to remedy the historic and systematic disenfranchisement of African Americans and other historically disenfranchised groups.

In New York, it was the voice of another historically disenfranchised minority, Asian-Americans.

Under her vision and leadership, Heritage helped the city become a warmer place for those who have been historically disenfranchised.

If they are part of an underrepresented and historically disenfranchised sector of an academic discipline – as women in philosophy are – the effects of these problems ramify more widely.

But at home, it shows its hypocrisy by insisting that historically disenfranchised forest dwelling citizens bear the cost of conservation and development.

People don't identify as poor, though, and it's hard to mobilise around a group who were historically disenfranchised and still are widely considered unable to participate in economic or political affairs.

"Georgia then spent decades creating barriers to prevent these historically-disenfranchised communities from exercising their constitutional right," she wrote.

Many Shia Muslims, the largest but historically most disenfranchised of Lebanon's 18 recognised confessional groups, still see Syria as the ultimate champion of the notion of "resistance".

And they eat a lot of shit from historically exhausted and disenfranchised people who too often have absolutely nothing to lose.

Millions of Americans, especially those who are historically marginalized and disenfranchised, are left trembling in fear over who he'll target next.

According to the 2012 Nonprofit Almanac there are more than 1.6 million non-profits operating in the U.S., of which nearly 20percentt (320,000) provide human services to historically underresourced communities and disenfranchised individuals.