Word: second-class
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...seriously as a student here. But, after the initial merger agreement with Radcliffe that gender-integrated Harvard College, women began demanding a women’s center. They were the first stirrings of a push that would continue for 30 years. This phase might have been “second-class citizenship...
...Minister. He will also press for the next Israeli government to force Israel's Arab citizens to sign a loyalty oath. For many left-wing Israelis, this smacks of unforgivable racism. Arabs make up nearly 20% of Israel's population, and they already complain that they are treated as second-class citizens in the Jewish state - or worse, as a fifth column of supporters for armed Palestinian militants in Gaza and the West Bank. Israel's Arab leadership generally opposes the state being defined on Jewish lines, instead demanding that it treat all citizens as equals. For Lieberman, the last...
...After the war, they used force to prevent any of them from returning. Then the new state summarily confiscated their land and property for redistribution to Jews. The remaining Arab population of Israel—now about 20 percent—eventually received formal legal equality, but live in second-class citizen status similar to that of American blacks in the North before affirmative action and the rise of the new black bourgeoisie...
...will be a second-class citizen for the rest of my life ... It affects every penny I have today." - on the fact that her retirement benefits are based on the discriminatory pay she received from Goodyear Tire, Birmingham News, January...
...because of his conflicts with the city—which he says is treating him as a “second-class citizen”—he intends to shut down his business and panhandle for the summer...