Word: downtrodden
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Nearing the Capitol, tens of thousands of people marched under a colorful array of Latin American flags, united in spirit and with the determination to be heard. Small children marched quickly alongside their weary parents. Downtrodden workers demanding just treatment shared their signs with civil rights activists, Central American refugees and socially conscious students. Despite the diversity of backgrounds present at the March, we were able to lay these differences aside and come together that morning to address the marginalization of Latinos in the United States...
Harvard might well have scored again, but the referee did not call late penalties against the downtrodden Central Connecticut side...
...sympathetic and empathetic with the downtrodden and the poor. But at the same time, you have to make money." --Boxing promoter Don King in a speech to Harvard law school students...
...sympathetic and empathetic with the downtrodden and the poor," he urged the future lawyers. "But at the same time, you have to make money," he said to laughter...
...Democrats convene in Chicago within a few blocks of some of the nation's most downtrodden neighborhoods, Clinton and his Administration reek of tin-plated noblesse oblige. When he signed the new law last week, the President boasted that it would help the poor rediscover the value of "work and family and independence." But the new system he brags so piously about provides few realistic ways for the poor to uplift themselves beyond insisting that they tug at their bootstraps. Clinton argues that those who still believe that the Federal Government has a duty to try to eradicate poverty should...