Word: second-class
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...exhilarating time of Black Pride, Black Power and slogans like "Black Is Beautiful." "Black" became more than a racial characterization; it was an assertion of social and political self-definition. The terms colored and Negro, in common use as late as 1967, were cast off as labels of second-class citizenship...
...Likud is determined to solidify Israeli control over some 1.7 million mostly Muslim Arabs. The Palestinians would continue to be governed by authorities they understandably regard as occupiers and oppressors. Democratic rule of second-class citizens is a contradiction in terms...
...made sure this time to bring someone else along. The sky was grey, but, except for a few stipples of rain, the water was calm. Bennett and some friends were standing by the boat reminiscing about early school-days, when English was still a second language, and the Swedes were second-class citizens...
...current rules regulating Ivy League football are maintained--and administrators see no reason to revise them--Ivy League football will never again regain national prominence, coaches say. The Presidents' Agreement of 1954 relegates Ivy League football to second-class status in the world of big-time collegiate athletics, these coaches...
...most significant change is the deflation of the separatist bubble. The cooling of extremism resulted partly from the passage of provincial laws making French Quebec's official language and assuring French speakers that they would not be treated as second-class citizens. More important, probably, was the realization that Quebec, whose 6.5 million residents comprise nearly a quarter of all Canadians, could not hope to stand alone either politically or economically. Quebec voters said non to separation in a 1980 referendum. They repeated the message two years ago by turning against the nationalist Parti Quebecois long led by Rene Levesque...