In France, he took up the cause of illegal immigrants and championed the rights of the oppressed.
Even though geeks have won a resounding victory, they remain psychologically trapped in the realm of the oppressed.
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This dynamic is slowly changing, and what we can see through humor, particularly of the oppressed, can tell us much.
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For others he was too timid, championing the oppressed but disbanding branches of his order when they became politically violent.
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On the silver screen, Estrada had typically played the role of the oppressed or the underdog -- farmer, squatter, drug addict, rebel leader.
Yet Mr Weber disagrees with previous writers such as Norman Cohn who treated millennial prophecy as the voice of the marginal, the disoriented or the oppressed.
Every faith community can take action as well, by educating their congregations, by joining in coalitions that are bound by a love of God and a concern for the oppressed.
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Chavez was a man "ready to battle any and all in order to redistribute wealth and to stand with the oppressed and against the oppressors, " he told BBC Radio 5 live.
What it had done for her, in the choir at Kilnerton Training Institute or fronting the Manhattan Brothers in the smoky shebeens of Sophiatown, it could also do for each member of the oppressed and dispossessed.
Bobby is a chunky, balding, sixtyish priest who leads his poor parishioners on protest marches, delivers fiery speeches on the evils of racism, and generally stirs things up on behalf of the disadvantaged, the neglected, and the oppressed.
Encouraged by the Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok, her loving confidante, she began to write a daily newspaper column, hold frequent press conferences, and speak out, at home and in public, for the poor, for the oppressed, and for the unlucky.
The Bombay (Mumbai) meeting is likely to see the anti-globalisation activists focusing on Hinduism's centuries-old social hierarchy, or the caste system, which relegates nearly one-sixth of India's one billion population to the status of low castes known as Dalits, or the oppressed.
But every society has a poor storm that wretches suffer in, and the attitude is always the same: either that the wretches, already dehumanized by their suffering, deserve no pity or that the oppressed, overwhelmed by injustice, will have to wait for a better world.
First, Hezbollah obviously has ways to either bribe or convert so- called marginal and indigenous groups in Latin America that had already developed anti-system ideologies, and, consequently, have a predisposition to make alliances with other groups that also detest the system and identify with the oppressed.
In the latter half of the 19th century the railroads oppressed the American people.
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As a flight attendant for Pan Am in the seventies, being oppressed was the furthest thing from my mind.
"I saw that the girls had been the most oppressed, " she said.
"More than that, the essential message from the president was the need to decolonise the African mind, post-liberation, to enable the previously oppressed African majority to appreciate and love who they are and uphold their own culture, " he said.
Thus we should not allow the dramatic power of the most visible narrative, the struggle between oppressed and oppressor, to drown out the sad reality of another less noble story line -- namely that this is still, at least for now, a sectarian conflict.
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This is particularly true when - as is the case with Islamophobia - the charge is leveled on behalf of people who were oppressed in the past by Westerners.
Sympathizing with the plight of oppressed Muslims overseas is not a signature to radicalization.
The premise of the game, if you recall, is a world in which the orcs and goblins and other green-skinned folks are viciously oppressed by the humans.
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Outside of wars, the truth is that every great movement of justice, where the poor and oppressed threw off their proverbial shackles, multiple leaders from those very ranks guided themselves.
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Shameless little Lucien is played by Kacey Mottet-Klein, and his scenes are the lightest and most inventive in the film, even though the forces that oppressed him, at that time, could not have been heavier.
It is an idea that would enjoy wide support among the American people and offer real hope to the world's oppressed.
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And so the peacefulness, the serenity that we feel away from the Internet, and which all the Better-Nevers rightly testify to, has less to do with being no longer harried by others than with being less oppressed by the force of your own inner life.
Brave, young and oppressed people around the world are realizing there is immense power in nonviolent struggle.
"The crucial element is the psychology of having been oppressed, " said Mr. Ilves.
Ixil Mayas, she said, can teach other oppressed groups around the world to stand by their rights and not to rest until tyrants are punished by law.
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