Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow we who are young and live in this nation, 2000 years later must find a mixture of Christ's compassion and understanding, but also his clean anger, his willingness to commit his energies in a struggle on behalf of the downtrodden of this world...
...growing medical complex's hand. National health insurance foretells the coming unified and centralized medical system. All this raises the spectre of a centralized medical empire with as democratic a structure as IBM. The doctor sees his or her role changing from line advocate for the poor, sick and downtrodden to bureaucratic head of this colossus. Herein we see the significance of Harvard's past and present discriminatory practices. Ultimately truly basic changes are needed. Institutional democracy with control of corporate complexes by those working in them and those being served by them is needed at Harvard and in medicine...
...Israelis, who have suffered through years of wanton attacks by Palestinian bombers and gunmen-terrorists are callous, cowardly murderers preying on innocent women and children. For their part, terrorists usually present themselves as revolutionaries, guerrillas and freedom fighters. They defend the use of violence as the necessary tactic of downtrodden peoples seeking to combat oppressive or colonial governments. In the eyes of their followers, the terrorists' successful use of violence often adds to, rather than detracts from their claim to respectability. Thus it is quite possible, if an independent Palestinian state is ever established, that statues of Arafat will...
...committee. "The union's massive propaganda machine has led the public to believe that there are thousands of desperate, ragged, starving farmworkers on strike here. This is not true. The picket lines are being manned by outside organizations such as the SDS. We resent the invention of an ignorant, downtrodden class of farmworkers where none exists...
...city is a hellish place or that killing muggers cuts the assault rate. This is the film's failure to perceive muggers as anything other than adventuristic hedonists. Nowhere in the film is there indication that these people attack others because they need money or because they are downtrodden. Even when in one scene, a group of assailants might be accused of harboring sexual motive, they stop short of getting their rocks off, and the observer is left to conclude that their crime was "just one of those fabulous flings." The casting-director's muggers are an antiseptic lot; there...