Definition of "helots" [helots]

• Plural form of helot. (noun)

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• "If in Greece the helots were a group of men who did not have access to the means of life and men deprived of their rights, these were our peasants -- men without the means of livelihood and men virtually deprived of their rights, because the peasant not only was denied land, but he was even denied education."
• "Proving that they are not the "helots" that Walter Brennan has been railing against all along."
• "We are asked, in fact, to create a class of political 'helots' in South Africa, where we are now waging a bloody and costly war ostensibly for the purpose of putting an end to a similar state of affairs. ""