8 Dispossessed Quotes for You to Enjoy

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. Camille Paglia

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action. Camille Paglia

Great Religion Simplicity Discipline Fishermen Action Christianity Kind Rigor Call Shepherds Began Poor Farmers Dispossessed Lure

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Rights Legal Women Men Enjoy Immigrants About Written Condemned Exile Condition Legal Rights Same Land Deprived Who Dispossessed Palestinians

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. Abdullah II of Jordan

Justice Isolation Earth Extremists Those Only Division Come Global Vulnerable Intellectual Targets Meaningless Teach Who Satisfaction Dispossessed Violence

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed. John Gregory Dunne

Me Army Thought Everyone Like Being Exposed Dispossessed Enlisted

The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings. Peter Abrahams

Angry Inferiority Desperate Overwhelming Young Mood Tensions Sharp Familiar Sensitive Poor Painful Who Awaits Dispossessed Violently