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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. -- Anthony Burgess
I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish, -- Viola Davis
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. -- H. G. Wells
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight. -- Tom Flynn
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor. -- A. Philip Randolph
Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden. -- Ulisses Soares
The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man. -- Saddam Hussein
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed. -- Michael Parenti
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free. -- Tariq Ramadan
I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ. -- Pandita Ramabai
Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy. -- Swami Vivekananda
Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies. -- Rush Limbaugh
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.' -- Thaddeus Stevens
Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices. -- Richard Bach
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there. -- Thomas S. Monson
Most of us would agree that the important thing about Jesus is not his supposed miraculous birth or the claim that he was resurrected from death, but rather how he lived. The power of his love, the penetrating simplicity of his teachings, and the force of his example of service on behalf of the disenfranchised and downtrodden are what is crucial. -- Forrest Church
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman. -- Vladimir Lenin
The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied. -- Isaac Asimov
I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be. -- Paloma Faith
It's a new world, brother. And we, the downtrodden, are taking it back. (Madoc) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And -- Khaled Hosseini
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. -- Lisa Kleypas
Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden. -- Narendra Modi
God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed. -- James Dobson
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When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times. -- Frank Iero
To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity. -- Russell M. Nelson
Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America. -- Kris Kristofferson
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. -- Jerry Leiber

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