Maana ya kamusi ya neno "kunyimwa haki" ni kumnyima mtu haki ya kupiga kura, au kumtenga mtu kutoka kwa mapendeleo au haki za kikundi fulani au jamii. Inaweza pia kurejelea hali ya kutokuwa na uwezo au ukosefu wa ushawishi ndani ya mfumo wa kijamii au kisiasa, mara nyingi kutokana na ubaguzi wa kimfumo au hasara.
1. A clear message that we cannot continue to write off the poor and disenfranchised, the street gangs, the youth who prostitute themselves, for they are the future of this world.
2. They kept to the shadows and mostly just observed life for these disenfranchised peoples.