Disenfranchised Youth Quotes & Sayings

it always bothered me to know that the right to have a cool drink of water on a hot Alabama day could depend simply on the color of a person's skin. — Toni Tennille

I usually play disenfranchised youth. — Robin Tunney

Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome. — Randolph Sinks Foster

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions. — Tim Berners-Lee

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president. — Gail Kelly

There is real danger that, by strengthening our abilities to analyze some questions mathematically, we acquire a general confidence in our beliefs, which extends unjustifiably to those things we're still wrong about. — Jordan Ellenberg

You can't stand up in a Cadillac, either. — Bill Lear

The most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. The — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience. — Michael Mann

It's one thing to run from ghosts, it's quite another to let them catch you. — Liza Palmer

Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by merely suffering somehow remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me what I had learned long ago, but had forgotten in my frenzied love, that there is a draft that we must drink or not be fully human? I knew that one must know the truth. I knew quite well that when one is adult one must raise to one's lips the wine of the truth, heedless that it is not sweet like milk, but draws the mouth with its strength, and celebrate communion with reality[.] — Rebecca West