Word: downtrodden
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...Born in downtrodden South Boston in 1939. Flynn's career has been a prototype for political success. Son of a longshoreman and a house cleaner, he went on to Providence College, where he was an All-American basketball player...
...there are an estimated 220,000 Christian missionaries at work in the world today: 138,000 Catholics and 82,000 Protestants, including more than 6,000 Catholics and 32,000 Protestants from the U.S. The new missionary typically works with the downtrodden and despised of societies in the far stretches of Africa or Latin America or in the vast highlands of Southeast Asia...
...result successfully steers clear of a cliche ridden things-are-bad philosophy. Avoiding the didacticism of hammering home a single point--the misery of the downtrodden--Terkel instead has culled enough of a range of happiness and unhappiness from his interviewees to stir the emotions without demanding any clear reaction. For every openly frustrated speech--like the steelworker (Michael Rapposelli) who wants desperately to get out of work and "go tell some guy fuck you," because he can't tell his boss--there is a dreamer like Anthony Calnek's stonemason, who notices the crooked bricks in every house...
...boycott of the city's buses. Just 26, King was an unlikely choice for the presidency of the organization formed to oversee the boycott. Yet he gained the position because as one observer put it, he could appeal to "both the masses and the classes," both the downtrodden majority and the affluent elite. He could talk to people "from any direction...
...sure, Jesus offers the downtrodden some consolation: in the afterlife, things will be reversed, and the virtuous poor will have their rewards, and the evil sinner his punishment. But so long as they are alive on the earth, the injunction is to turn the other check and await God's justice. (Jesus gives the reader a small foretaste of divine righteousness when he curses a fig tree, which promptly withers...