All 16 Uses
grievance
in
Long Walk to Freedom
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- The year of my birth marked the end of the Great War; the outbreak of an influenza epidemic that killed millions throughout the world; and the visit of a delegation of the African National Congress to the Versailles peace conference to voice the grievances of the African people of South Africa.†
Chpt 1.1grievances = complaints
- Shortly before the election, a meeting of all students was held to discuss problemsand voice our grievances.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- A strike based on a political grievance rather than on clear-cut issues like higher wages or shorter hours is a more precarious form of protest and demands particularly efficient organization.†
Chpt 2.8grievance = complaint
- I enumerated the many times that we had brought our grievances before the government and the equal number of times that we were ignored or shunted aside.†
Chpt 5.16grievances = complaints
- I wanted very much to cross swords with Percy Yutar, but it was more important that I use the platform to highlight our grievances.†
Chpt 5.21
- Hanson spoke eloquently, saying that a nation's grievances cannot be suppressed, that people will always find a way to give voice to those grievances.†
Chpt 5.23
- Hanson spoke eloquently, saying that a nation's grievances cannot be suppressed, that people will always find a way to give voice to those grievances.†
Chpt 5.23
- I have heard a great deal during the course of this case about the grievances of the non-European population.†
Chpt 5.23
- The accused have told me and their counsel have told me that the accused who were all leaders of the non-European population were motivated entirely by a desire to ameliorate these grievances.†
Chpt 5.23
- I enumerated our grievances about the food, our living conditions, and the work detail.†
Chpt 6.27
- He asked to hear all of our complaints and grievances, and listened very carefully, taking extensive notes.†
Chpt 6.30
- I recounted our grievances regarding food, visits, letters, studies, exercise, hard labor, and the behavior of warders.†
Chpt 6.30
- I decided that Aucamp's unexpected appearance was a singular opportunity to present our grievances to the man who had the power to remedy them.†
Chpt 6.30
- When we called meetings to discuss our grievances and later had news sessions to discuss what we had learned from the paper, the PAC boycotted these gatherings.†
Chpt 6-34
- The authorities asked us to nominate a spokesman to express our grievances, and I was chosen.†
Chpt 7.38
- I approached the meeting as another opportunity to present our grievances, and at first he seemed content to listen.†
Chpt 7.44
Definitions:
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(1)
(grievance) the cause of a complaint (real or imagined); or the complaint in formally written form
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, in classic literature, grievance can reference a feeling of resentment.