Word: downtrodden
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Most Asians are poor and downtrodden, but they have a sense of justice that distinguishes right from wrong. There is no great power waging wars in Asia today except the U.S. Consequently, Asians construe that America is a militaristic nation out to dominate Asia by reviving the hated colonialist gun-boat policy...
...true that in some areas of the U.S.S.R. local nationalists did greet the Germans as potential liberators. But Strik-Strikfeldt's sketches of the conquering Germans restoring abandoned churches as they went and winning the huzzahs of the downtrodden populace is an astonishingly ingenuous view of the Nazi war machine. As late as 1941, he insists, Hitler had "the opportunity to refashion Europe on a basis of freedom, justice and equality." That is like saying that the jaguar, in mid-attack, could change into an antelope-and it explains much about German naiveté. Anyone who could believe that...
...east India, 15% of the hospital beds are filled by malnutrition cases, and some economists worry that Indian children will be so stunted by their poor diet that they will grow up to be a "nation of mediocrities." As Finance Minister Y.B. Chavan notes: "Eighty percent of the downtrodden have remained virtually untouched by the development process and it would be perilous to ignore them...
...lazy, foulmouthed deadbeats addicted to alcohol, gambling and promiscuity. Another aspect of black drama is that it bears a surprising relationship to the class-conscious plays of the '30s. The manner is naturalistic. The tone is hortatory. The focus is not on individuals but on a downtrodden group undergoing a consciousness-raising exercise...
...means anti-radical, only cautious; his respect and awe for the tenacity and the vitality of the nation's downtrodden is matched by his lamenting the need for such tenacity. He reminds those of us who advocate radical change of both our ultimate goals and awesome responsibilities; we fight in the last instance not on behalf of social theories but to serve people and if we disturb society's equilibrium, we are really upsetting the lives of individuals. We had better be sure we are deeply dedicated to pushing on for a better world to replace...