Sentences with phrase «class citizens who»

The children in this study whose lives were governed by court orders all told me that they felt like second class citizens who had lost the freedoms their peers took for granted.

What galls me most about Judge Sullivan's decision is the implicit assumption pervading this ruling: that solo and small firm lawyers are second class citizens who ought to be grateful for any scraps they get.

Obese people are second class citizens who are relegated to cleaning around the machines or are made fun of in game shows.

It is a love story between two voiceless creatures and a story of overlooked, second - class citizens who plot and succeed in an uprising.

«As the chair of the Senate Committee on Banks, I take seriously these predatory practices that impact working class citizens who have already suffered through the subprime mortgage crisis.

We are not second class citizens who «bought a baby.»

Not exact matches

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

The movement was popular with working class citizens under 25, who have suffered under international sanctions which have affected Iran's economic growth.

Bank of America has been hit with a proposed class action by a Brazilian citizen who said he was denied a job at the bank because his work authorization, granted under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to renewal.

It is about time women take back control over their lives instead of bowing down to religion that are ruled by men who want women to be second class citizens of the world.

In many situations Atheists ARE treated like second class citizens (though no more so than anyone who doesn't follow a Christian religion); but I agree that doesn't necessitate the name calling.

«And it makes people who fall into those categories — no religion or other religion — feel like second - class citizens in the state of Arkansas, which they are not.»

It's also important for those of us who have grown weary of being treated like second - class Kingdom citizens to be reminded of the fact that there are indeed many Christian men out there who support and celebrate women in the Church.

Funny how an African American, who just fifty years ago would have ridden on the back of the bus to his interview, is using the same Bible used to enslave his ancestors, to relegate those different from himself to a second class citizen status.

The Leprechaun camp in this country is STILL fighting to keep gays as second class citizens, yet cry out for help for this fellow who is suffering from the exact same ignorance.

In these scenarios, the countries visited are presented as one - dimensionally impoverished, its citizens cast as helpless innocents, and middle - class Americans portrayed as the only saviors who can help.

Let us be mindful that it is not our Muslim fellow citizens who have undermined public morality, assaulted our religious liberty, and attempted to force us to comply with their ideology on pain of being reduced to the status of second - class citizens.

Go ask a woman who is a member and see if they feel like they are second class citizens.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

The lower class citizens, led by the beautiful Maria, a combo of John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary, prophesy a coming savior who will break the endless cycle of fear and enslavement.

They are nominally religious middle class social clubs whose members are responsible citizens who treat one another with civility and reciprocal altruism.

At that time waves of new immigrants were arriving in the cities of North America, and etiquette books emerged which taught these newcomers, who would become middle class citizens, how to avoid misbehaving in public.

You consider simple thoughts like lust and mast.urbation a sin, but have no issue with the disgusting, degenerate way your Bible treats women and $ ex and, even today, admire people like Michele Bachmann who consider women second class citizens to men.

It sickens me that people like you wish to treat them as second - class citizens, simply because of who they love.

5) you said: «It sickens me that people like you wish to treat them as second - class citizens, simply because of who they love.»

What I meant to say is that the religion of a candidate will certainly influence his politics — how could someone who's religion discriminates against a «gay lifestyle» pass legislation that supports gay equality and abolishes the second - class citizen status of gay people?

Mohammed my friend you said you read the Quran 5 times, and it doesn't say to kill people who don't convert to Islam, thats true for Christians and Jews only, but they have to become second class citizens, the Quran calls on Muslims to hate Jews and Christians and to not befiriend them or you become a lose in the hereafter.

2 - Who said pagans have to be second class citizens?

Any American who doesn't think ISLAM and America are at odds with our values should only look and see what Most Muslim countries look like, Iran, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, no freedom at all, women all second class citizens, sharia law, women stoned, gays killed got just being gay, all other religious mininorties are oppressed and could be killed at any time, and deny all rights.

how does a person, a professional footballer who's daily schedule is quite light compared to a regular working class citizen, not learn the basics of English language in a year's time span?

«This current administration has a position that the people who work for the village of Orland Park are second - class citizens and they don't deserve the same respect that other unions get,» Dexter said.

Fred Featherstone, a 26 - year resident who was on the citizens committee, said the group wanted the center to have broad appeal, a place where mothers could work out while their children were in class.

It corresponds to the worst fears of single advocate Bella DePaulo, who has written that even when gay and lesbian people gain true marriage equality, «all those people who are single — whether gay or straight or any other status — will still remain second class citizens,» wanting for the tax breaks and legal dispensations and next - of - kin rights enjoyed by their married peers.

«Law abiding, tax - paying LGBT New Yorkers, and parents of LGBT children, should not have to worry that their governor will be siding with those who feel we are less than, that we are second class citizens living less valid lives than our neighbors,» Levi said in a statement that appears in full after the jump.

Borrowing from cosmopolitan discourse, Selasi describes a class of people who have deep and meaningful — yet fluid, connections to Africa, while identifying more so as citizens of the world than any particular nation state.

And why should people who live in areas served by public water systems below this threshold be treated as second class citizens — does their health and safety not warrant the same protection as everyone else?»

He has fired up a section of men who believe that women are second - class citizens.

This is significant progress for a group who frequently feel like second class citizens - unrecognised for the contribution they make to society and left in ill - health and financial hardship as a result of caring.

«The Democratic field for Mayor this year was comprised of candidates who are passionate about improving the quality of life for workers, the middle class, and New York's most vulnerable, such as the poor and senior citizens,» said UAW Region 9A Director Julie Kushner.

There are two classes of Arabs in Israel primarily: Israeli Arabs, who are citizens of Israel, and Palestinian Arabs, who mostly live under occupation by the Israeli military.

«Based upon that brief, last - minute phone conversation, the plan is unacceptable and continues to create a second - class citizen status for FDNY firefighters and NYPD police officers, who risk their lives every day to keep New Yorkers safe,» the statement said.

In fact we now know that America will borrow trillions more from China, burdening our children with that debt for decades... just so Pubs could give huge tax breaks to the Pub donor class — who have bought our government since the Citizens United decision.

Civil service clerks who unionize and advocate for a wage structure that enables them to participate in our economy as productive, middle - class citizens are demonized, ridiculed and exhorted to accept their status as serfs and vassals while an economy on the brink of complete failure can't throw enough money at the self - syled «nobility».

The worry I have is the more we bang on about immigration — and it seems as though that is going to be one of the big themes of the next election — it resonates with what we understand people are concerned about, but the more we bang on about that as the Conservative Party, the more we will seem I fear to people in this country with brown skin, with black skin, people who've come from outside the UK, they will just think «God, Tories somehow see us as being second - class citizens».

If Labour does want to regain its former levels of support from working class citizens (who remain objectively the largest social group in society), the party must adopt the politics of hope and ambition — the hope and ambition to make the mass of citizens» lives better through regulating the processes and outcomes of the market.

It's a complete political non-starter, would force countries to make their own language (s), second - class language (s), be a massive impingement on their sovereignty in a very sensitive domain and prioritize businesses over everything else (and in particular the citizens who use their products or have a dispute with them).

Just days after receiving our demand to repeal the SAFE Act from Senator Kathy Marchione, and what amounted to a small patriot army, the governor, exhibiting a lack of respect, wisdom and discretion, cut a closed - door, back - room deal with Senator Dean Skelos, who then opened NY's Senate floor for a vote on a bill that would divide Republican Senators upstate from downstate and create a separate, unequal class of citizens: the law enforcement officer class.

They are about equal rights for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who are treated like second class citizens.

«It is the same hostile environment all over again, shutting our fellow citizens out of public life, treating communities who made Britain their home as second - class citizens.

«Second - class citizen» is the phrase that even those who like their jobs often use to describe their status in the departments where they work.