helot

• The Palestinian American writer Rashid Khalidi uses the term "helot" (a term from the Greek of Ancient Greece to designate an indeterminate status between that of a slave and that of a citizen) to designate the position of Palestinian civilians who have neither civil rights nor any political opportunity to influence the behaviour of the state that dominates and controls their lives in endlessly demeaning and demoralising ways. —  body on the line
• Michael Kreca's only "crime" in this affair was his failure to display the docility of an ancient Spartan helot - that is, a member of class not protected by law, and Every encounter between civilians and the state's armed enforcers has the potential to escalate into an episode of state-inflicted lethal violence. —  LewRockwell.com
• What possible relation could exist between an Athenian philosopher and a helot, a Roman noble and a slave, a Pharisee proud of his meticulous knowledge of the law, and the common people who were unlettered? —  The Empire of Love
• The hideous, helot-like uniform of the German private hung loosely on their shoulders, and the color of their skin was unhealthy and greenish. —  A Volunteer Poilu
• Have you gauged the importance of your tremendous consumption of quack catholicons, of the fortunes derived from their sale, of the spread of modern nervous disorders, of toothless youth and thrice loathsome age among the helot-classes? —  Prince Zaleski

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