"He devised a large number of programs for the benefit of farmers, for the benefit of downtrodden people, for health care, for self-help groups of women,"
VOA: standard.2009.09.03
Those of us with a Western point of view think that it was the greatest of sins that Mubarak muzzled his already-much-downtrodden people.
The picture is painted of poor, downtroddenpeople who are suffering while the fat cat capitalist exploiters are flying around in their private jets, oblivious.
Simone identified with downtroddenpeople everywhere, and starved herself to death in England in 1943 to express her solidarity with the suffering of her compatriots after the French Resistance refused to parachute her into occupied France.