Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They were going to listen to Graham talk about brotherhood, the problems of the poor and downtrodden, the simple virtues. It was all going to seem very equitable. Then they were going to go home and feel good about themselves. After all, they were saved...
...When a downtrodden and previously feudalistic China emerged from revolution four years later, the communist victors drew ambitious plans to meet the impending task of industrialization and modernization. They would attempt to make a backward agrarian country a peer to the world's scientifically advanced nations and to create for the Chinese people and the world an image of a vanguard for international communist revolution...
...Allende took office in an already chaotic situation. Popular Unity's goals, as Morris is careful to explain, were not to create socialism, but to lay the foundations for an eventual transition--nationalization, income and land redistribution, expansion of social services, and, least tangible but most important, awakening in downtrodden Chileans a sense of their own importance, the need for them to participate in decisions that affect their lives...
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...