There had always been hints that Johnson, once he had acquired power, might use it for more than himself, might even use it to help the most powerless, 'bright threads gleaming in a dark tapestry', which always hinted at a compassion for the downtrodden.
"I find it outrageous that the Congress is going to find room in its heart to help the poor downtrodden drug companies, but will not find room in their hearts to deal with the problems of the long-term unemployed".
God has given you wealth in excess, use it to help the downtrodden".
"People often call on God to help the outcasts and downtrodden that walk among us," Martin wrote to the FCC.
In the complacent and self-obsessed 1990's, her urge to help the poor and downtrodden is seen as quaint and ingenuous.
Like Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and John Edwards, his fellow Democratic candidates, he expresses both a political and a religious obligation to help the downtrodden.
It was while serving in India that Baring buried his early notions of self-determination for colonial peoples and decided that strong rule accompanied by reform programs was the only way to help the downtrodden peasant.
It was around 1981, but I was stuck in the idealistic and irritating '70s, when it was considered perfectly normal to ask rich people how they were planning to use their wealth to help the downtrodden.
Although no "disabilities" of any kind were evident to a visitor, Ms. Headley-Moore described them as serving an important role in strengthening her commitment to help the downtrodden, the misunderstood and the disenfranchised.
The genuine sense of human beings made of blood and beating hearts exacerbates the horror, too, as Gerard Murphy's tyrannical Pozzo passes through and Estragon and Vladimir stand by and do nothing to help the downtrodden Lucky.
