Downtrodden Quotes

• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Interest
  • Slave
  • Bourgeoisie

• If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Obligation

• But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

  

  August Spies
  • Movement
  • Salvation
  • Downtrodden

• I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Roles
  • Given
  • Downtrodden

• To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Opportunity
  • Feels
  • Shadow