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The author contends that philosophy, art, and literature are empowering, because they teach the disenfranchised how to challenge the elite without violence.
The Post says civil rights groups have pushed this in Florida because one-third of the nation's disenfranchised felons live there and about 31 percent of the state's black men are ineligible to vote.
That is, the lawyer who serves the poor and disenfranchised.
9% respectively in 1999) [ 12 ] . Minority women from poor urban communities, such as D. C., enter prenatal care later and have fewer prenatal care visits than white women of higher socio-economic levels [ 13 14 ] . Women who make little or no use of prenatal care often are disenfranchised members of the community, such as homeless and substance abusing women [ 15 16 ] . In D.C., many people, particularly those from disenfranchised communities, do not believe that prenatal care is important.
As a result, the English parliament enacted the Penal Laws of 1704, which disenfranchised the Catholic Irish; their purpose was to keep the majority of Irish poor and powerless.