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And having an entire group of people constantly waiting in the wings to downtrod even the slightest POSITIVE moves does not help matters.

Top House Republican slams Obama over stimulus, jobs 2009

I felt the surge of me Irish, thinking of all the other inequities the Brits had visited on our poor downtrod people, time out of mind, of me family that was gunmen during the Rebellion - the great-uncles Bob, and Michael, whose own name I bear.

Confessions of an I.R.A. Terrorist 2010

They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of

The American Scholar 2006

They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero, and will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat, those giant sinews combat and conquer.

I. Essays. The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 1909

And she rippled on about the freedom of her soul and her downtrod sisters and this here New Dawn.

Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

"Well, Curly, how are you enjoying yourself now in this hard and downtrod position that life has gave to you?"

The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890

"Now, we ain't downtrod none in this country," finally began Doc

Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

"Sir, I must ask you -- is he not the frien 'of the poor and downtrod?"

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero, and will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat, those giant sinews combat and conquer.

Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849) 1849

They cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero, and will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat, those giant sinews combat and conquer.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842