Downtrodden Quotes

• 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

  Men, Important, Hussein

  "Price of Honor". Book by Jane Goodwin, 2002.

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• 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

  Lying, Ambition, Race

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.524, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

  Anthony Burgess

  Slang, Creator

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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 to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Rights, Shadow, World

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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 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

  Women, Rights, Doe

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• 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

  Men, Poison, Crushed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.122, Vintage

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• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  Mordecai Richler

  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• 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

  Home, House, Childhood

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• A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

  H. G. Wells

  Class, Alliances, Able

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.351, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loyalty, Country, Father

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• It’s a new world, brother. And we, the downtrodden, are taking it back. (Madoc)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, World, New World

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.285, Macmillan

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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 this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, School, Trying

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• Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Party, Humble, Political

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The War of the End of the World”, p.102, Macmillan

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• 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

  Jesus, Teaching, Simplicity

  John Beuhrens, Forrest Church (1998). “A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Powerful, Children

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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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 - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Strong, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2840, Manonmani Publishers

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• The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Century, Claims, Fraud

  Phyllis Schlafly (2003). “Feminist fantasies”, Spence Pub

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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 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

  Children, Heart, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Perseverance, Moving, Inspiration

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• Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

  Khaled Hosseini

  Needs, Injustice, Flocks

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.296, A&C Black

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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 but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.

  Pandita Ramabai

  Uplifting, Reading, Heart

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• Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

  Leon Uris

  Lonely, Loneliness, Book

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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• 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

  Art, Wild Side, America

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• 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

  Heart, Names, Tears

  James C. Dobson (2012). “When God Doesn't Make Sense”, p.198, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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

  Order, India, Movement

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