Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters said they will continue civil disobedience until the company stops its Krugerrand sales, which they said gives economics support to a government that demies citizenship and many civil liberties to Blacks...
...carries out these indignities through criminal law and police action is fundamentally inconsistent with these values. South African apartheid is such a system. South Africa's policies of racial discrimination are built into the constitution and laws and enforced through the civil and criminal courts. Blacks are denied citizenship, educational and economic opportunity, personal mobility, due process of law, and most civil rights and liberties. For these reasons, all of us unequivocally condemn apartheid...
Almost ninety years ago, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a prophetic dissent to the Supreme Court decision in Plessy V. Ferguson, upholding state-imposed segregation in the United States Harlan condemned mandated segregation as "inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, but with the personal liberty enjoyed by everyone in the United States....The destinies of the races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be placed under the sanction of law." The spirit of Harlan's dissent underlies...
...first-class citizens?" Now any serious student of American racist patterns and Afro-American life could tell Mansfield that Blacks have never lacked the will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much--or the institutional knowledge required to become citizens at parity with American citizenship standards, and it is insulting and just plain ignorant of Mansfield to suggest otherwise What Black Americans have tacked in their tortuous citizenship quest is the freedom to pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist values like those implied in Mansfield and Charles Murray's writings, freedom from...
...looking grim and angry on the streets of the capital, she went out of control, showering them with obscenities in English. Dissatisfied by the cool official welcome she received, she has several times displayed her temper to the Soviet authorities. Olga, who, like her mother, still retains her U.S. citizenship, refused to wear the regulation uniform at a Moscow school. She came to class with a cross hanging around her neck...