the downtrodden masses
1 not provided with opportunities because of having been treated unfairly by someone in authority
The old nag is the voice of women and the downtrodden whose struggles will not dramatically change, regardless of political slogans.
It then touches on five main areas of complaint before describing how the commons are downtrodden.
The tendency of upwardly mobile members of a downtrodden class to disassociate from that class can be found within many contexts.
The day of the downtrodden had come.
Majid fed the poor, the weak, the downtrodden.
Rohr's windows are in fact the occupations of these musicians, from church musicians and downtrodden orchestral opera pit players to exalted opera stars.
I will remain forever downtrodden.
They often suggest - but less often realize - the prospects for overcoming misleadingly abstract distinctions among 'class', 'race', 'gender ' and 'ethnicity ' in the lives of the downtrodden.
