Sentence examples for oppressed masses from inspiring English sources

They took their name from the Nation of Islam teaching that 5 percent of the people are "poor righteous teachers" who have to educate the oppressed masses.

Controversially, Joe added that today Marxists must look to the oppressed masses of the third world as the agent of revolution.

Nadine Samuels, a Frenchwoman who now lives in Berkeley, Calif., did allow that it was a little odd that the oppressed masses in China did not at least get a mention.

I believe that, in fact, the funhouse-mirror class war (in which liberals and poor people are the upper class and billionaires are among the oppressed masses) has been going on longer than that — at least since Nixon's "silent majority".

The same incentive for democratization exists in many countries that lack a natural reservoir of riches like China and Jordan — a bad omen for authoritarian rulers and good news for the world's oppressed masses.

The annual meeting of the most valuable company on Earth was winding toward a close when a determined shareholder grabbed the microphone and brought up the plight of the oppressed masses.

Indeed, the spectators in the Colosseum are no oppressed mass waiting for freedom.

I looked at the video recording after my release from prison and felt once again the affirmation of the masses that, in him, the oppressed people had a person who was truly their servant, when he said: "I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom.

Under the umbrella of Wahhabism - an extreme, seventh century interpretation of Islam - the oppressed Muslim masses are encouraged to take up arms against the corrupted, Muslim, oligarchic rulers and their backers, the west.

One of the curiosities I discovered as ambassador to Lebanon was the number of Western journalists, academics and nongovernmental representatives who, while enjoying the fine wines and nightlife of Beirut, romanticized Hezbollah and its associates like Al Akhbar as somehow the authentic voices of the oppressed Lebanese masses.

The biggest strikes against him are ones that existed in 2008, over which the struggling, oppressed Paulestinian masses stick their fingers in their ears and say "Lalalalalala, that's not true!