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Spiritually speaking, most of them are going to be out of luck when Armageddon comes. According to their belief, only 144,000 Witnesses will be called upon to reign in heaven with Christ. The rest will have to settle for 1,000 years of a second-class paradise on earth; afterwards Satan will be permanently overcome and all non-Witnesses consigned to darkness...
...government. In 1867, when Canada won self-rule, the fathers of Canadian confederation wrote into the British North America Act Quebec's inalienable right to its own language, Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity. Just the same, Quebec's citizens believe that their status is still second-class. Partly, French Canadians can blame themselves. For nearly two decades, Quebec was ruled as the personal fief of Premier Maurice Duplessis, who held the province in corrupt, paternalistic thrall. Only after he died could French Canada see clearly where it stood in relation to the rest of the country...
...offer except old threats supported by sly promises." The Opposition, declared Macmillan, still clings to its "old-hat" view of a socialist utopia, in which "everybody is more or less the same shade of grey." He insisted that under Labor, Britain would revert swiftly to the status of a "second-class power...
...oddball economics but Caouette's French Canadianness that is his true strength. He makes skilled demagogic use of Quebec's nagging dissatisfaction with its role in Canadian life. French Canadians make up nearly 30% of the country's population, and most of them feel like second-class citizens. They complain that they hold only 10% of the jobs in the federal civil service, usually at lower levels, that bilingualism, though given lip service in the federal capital at Ottawa, is ignored throughout the rest of the nation; that even their own province's economy is dominated...
...Congress moved toward bestowing honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill, someone decided that it was time to repatriate Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Though pardoned under a post-Civil War proclamation by President Andrew Johnson, Lee was, in effect, a second-class citizen, excluded by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1868) from holding any public office, civil or military. Now Freshman Representative James H. Quillen, a Tennessee Republican, has introduced a House bill posthumously restoring full rights to the Southern hero in recognition of his "courage and integrity...