Sentence examples for be recognized as citizens from inspiring English sources

She also highlights two movements that will be less familiar to contemporary readers: the Double V, or Double Victory, campaign, in which "black Americans fought... overseas for their country but also to be recognized as citizens at home"; and the Popular Front initiative, conceived by the Communist Party in response to "the economic crisis of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism".

Minister Malcolm taught us that we couldn't be recognized as citizens until we are first recognized as humans.

Once we recognize this, we can begin to have a different perspective of Asian Americans, as a cultural, racial, and ethnic group with the right to be recognized as citizens and not just as foreigners.

The requirements for such struggle have not at least been put forward by the European Roma, which for centuries have not been recognized as citizens or as fellow human beings.

Mr. Rehman said the Rohingyas had been imported as laborers from across the world during the British colonial rule in then-Burma, but they have never been recognized as citizens by the country.

Free black people were recognized as citizens, though with limited rights, in the states in which they lived.

Under those principles, people born within the territorial dominion of a nation were recognized as citizens at birth.

In 2007 he was recognized as "Citizen of the Year" by the local Chamber of Commerce in his adopted town of Riverside, California.

American women need to be recognized as full citizens.

"People with disabilities deserve to be recognized as equal citizens and equal participants in society.

Sometimes we forget about all of the sacrifices that were made by African Americans in order for them to be recognized as full citizens of the United States of America.