Sentence examples for poor condemning from inspiring English sources

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Michelle Alexander, in her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness wrote that during Jim Crow, "In many cases, the relatively privileged black elite turned against the black urban poor, condemning them and distancing themselves, while at the same time presenting themselves as legitimate spokespeople for the disadvantaged".

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Council members and advocates for the poor condemned the decision.

Mr Estrada's supporters, chiefly the poor, condemned the cardinal and rioted in protest.

Fire in the Blood is the urgent effort of director Dylan Gray to record the story of how western drugs companies blocked access to low-cost HIV/Aids treatment for the world's poorest, condemning millions to agonising, unnecessary deaths.

The irony isn't only that the poor are condemned for being dependent on the state while the rich are not.

As for libraries, those ancient storehouses of knowledge, with all those poor people condemned endlessly to shelve and to store and to preserve paper books – gone, gone forever!

In it Camus argues that, in an absurd world, the poor hero condemned by the gods to roll a rock up a hill for eternity, always falling just short of the top, was ultimately a happy man.

And far from creating a "new world order" as claimed by Gordon Brown, the G20 are butresssing the unjust, untenable and failing old world order in which the poor are condemned to ever deeper poverty, while the rich are rewarded for failure as handsomely as for success.

"Osborne is axing insulation for tens of thousands of the poorest households, condemning thousands of families to cold and damp homes with unaffordable high bills for decades, whilst allowing the Big Six to continue their profiteering just a week after a huge rise of deaths from fuel poverty have been reported," said Clare Welton from Fuel Poverty Action.

"I have identified the specific investments that are needed; found ways to plan and implement them; shown that they can be affordable; and addressed the counsels of despair who claim that the poor are condemned by their cultures, values, and personal behaviors".

They've revealed, though, they will abandon the poor, to condemn not only gay men and women but anyone who tolerates them.

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