“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.” KnowsMenTogetherLawUnderstandingResponsibilityVirtueGreaterProgressSpecialEventsCitizensEthicsToolsThirdsTradeCurrentsProfessionObligationEducatedPeacefulCivicsFree ManCurrent EventsPeaceful Society Author:John F. Kennedy
“The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.” StatesCharacterChanceUnitedPayUnited StatesCitizensDrawsForgivenessThirdsCrowdsFavorsFiftyGrants Author:Bill Vaughan
“You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.” FeelsTryingCountryGrowsViewsDealsClassGrowing UpCitizensThirdsPoint Of ViewLatinEntitled Author:John Leguizamo
“We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens” PeopleIfsLanguageCitizensThirdsIndiaRateStrikesTreatedOfficialsThunderHindi Author:C. N. Annadurai
“[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.” WorldKindCountryPoliticalPresidentEnemyPovertyNovelFiveConditionsDangerousCitizensThirdsFellowsJohnsonBattlefieldsThird WorldDickensPolitical WillThird World CountriesPresident Johnson Author:Anna Quindlen
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.” PeopleWorldEarthAmericaFightingBornLibertyRightsMilitarySonCitizensThirdsPropertySlaveDareRepublicFrozenPeasantsCzars Author:Andrew Jackson
“Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.” WellsAmericaOrderStrongNationsClassCitizensWastePercentThirdsSeeking Author:Jackie Robinson
“In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” LittlesEnoughWholeMomentsGovernmentTodayNationsMillionsGreaterProgressCitizensStandardsTestsThirdsAddIllPopulationReformAbundanceDeniedLowest Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.” PeopleThinkingAnimalClassRightsPlanetsCitizensEqualThirdsEqual Rights Author:Sigourney Weaver
“We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.” ShouldYearsBelieveChildrenClassModernDangerCitizensThousandOrganizationThirdsAlsThousand YearsIsisSexuallyModern Society Author:Bernie Sanders
“When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.” JobsSocialCuttingSecurityMonthsCitizensBenefitsThirdsAverageIncomeRelySeniorSocial SecuritySenior Citizen Author:Bernie Sanders
“Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.” FirstsLyingCoursesHalfTechnologyCenturyCitizensThirdsRadioSpreadBombsControlledAtomsAirplane20th CenturyAtom Bomb Author:Anthony Doerr
“I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.” PeopleWayFeelsStillsMatterWalksPiecesCitizensThirdsGlassesIsraelStaringSan FranciscoIsraeliHyper Author:Molly Antopol
“If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.” IfsMindFirstsPersonsClassSupportCuttingCitizensThirdsConvinceAlliesFirst ClassEnslavement Author:Maya Angelou
“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.” IfsWayTwoFacesForceSocialChallengesPowerfulActingPracticeGreaterCitizensEqualCapitalismThirdsTransformationConsumersCorporationsConcertsTwo WaysPillarsGreater GoodSocial Transformation Author:Simon Mainwaring