Quotes About Being Downtrodden

#1. The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.

Jerry Leiber

#2. It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots of those around me, were cast the moment we were born into the gutter to parents who never managed to step outside the gutter themselves.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#3. One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

Jack Canfield

#4. She stood with flaccid breasts, somehow still full of herself.

Shannon Bradley-Colleary

#5. But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

Albert Camus

#6. Hawk wasn't a normal man, nor a man with a virtuous compass, he felt nothing most of the time, no guilt, regret, he flicked people off like gnats neither bothered nor caring about them.

V. Theia

#7. I wasn't here to make love. I was here to make war.

R.K. Lilley

#8. Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. Harry

J.K. Rowling

#9. ...she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers.

Anthony Doerr

#10. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

David Kenyon Webster

#11. Well, you just have to make sure that you're his escape

Ellen Wittlinger

#12. Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#13. The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral universe where people who do not work to create profit are considered less than human, and used as surplus labour to drive down the cost of wages.

Laurie Penny