Sentence examples for first-class citizenship from inspiring English sources

616, 17 L.Ed.2d 562, 3 lawyers also enjoy first-class citizenship.

"In almost everything we do, we have to deal with issues of discrimination and all of the ways in which we're deprived of first-class citizenship," he said.

During the mid-1960s Tijerina gained international attention and expanded his campaign against discrimination, demanding first-class citizenship, economic opportunity, and the right to speak Spanish and preserve Chicano culture.

But the court should make clear that as Americans, if not as Tennesseans, people like George Lane, Beverly Jones and Ralph Ramsey have the right of full entry into the halls of justice -- and first-class citizenship.

Irene West was an active participant in the African American freedom struggle who, according to Jo Ann Robinson, dedicated her life to "fighting for the cause of first-class citizenship" for blacks (Robinson, 70).

It is likely that her daughter will not enjoy the privileges of first-class citizenship: she probably won't be regarded and treated according to her worth, and she probably won't be protected from the suspicions, fears, and judgments with which people will react to her skin color.

"First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson," edited by Michael G. Long (Times Books, $26), offers a personal perspective on the ballplayer's political evolution.

We are willing to go to jail, be ridiculed, spat upon, and even suffer physical violence to obtain First Class Citizenship.

In 1956, Martin Luther King was given the Alpha Award of Honor for "Christian leadership in the cause of first class citizenship for all mankind" at the 50th-anniversary convention of Alpha Phi Alpha (Papers 3 339).

This is how second-class citizenship feels.

It enshrines the idea of second-class citizenship in law.