Downtrodden Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
— Anthony Burgess
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Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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…
— Pandita Ramabai
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Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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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…
— Michael Parenti
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish,
— Viola Davis
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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…
— Vladimir Lenin
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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,…
— Richard Bach
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To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a…
— Paula Rego
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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…
— Ginny Brown-Waite
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When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had…
— Jehan Sadat
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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…
— A. Philip Randolph
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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
— H.G. Wells
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Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and…
— Larry L. King
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NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a…
— Dan Smoot
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If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less -…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And
— Khaled Hosseini
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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…
— Swami Vivekananda
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They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got…
— Gabourey Sidibe
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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…
— Russell M. Nelson
Who Wrote These Downtrodden Quotes
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