What is "third-class citizens"

Usage examples of "third-class citizens".

That is from Dr Samuel Johnson, I believe - a man who regarded women as no better than third-class citizens, lower than Scotsmen or Americans - two groups quite low in his esteem.

They had already lost the war, but then they were considered third-class citizens of the world.

Even if he won, even if they were admitted to the Elderhood, would they always be third-class citizens, mocked by everybody else?

Adding the name of a local city to our own had been the tradition of most indigenie families -- for my family was indeed indigenie, descended from those first seedship pioneers almost seven centuries earlier, third-class citizens on our own world: third now after the Pax offworlders and the Hegira colonists who came centuries after my ancestors.

Adding the name of a local city to our own had been the tradition of most indigenie families-for my family was indeed indigenie, descended from those first seedship pioneers almost seven centuries earlier, third-class citizens on our own world: third now after the Pax offworlders and the Hegira colonists who came centuries after my ancestors.

Spoilt and ignored, they developed a shell of arrogance early in life, treating everyone else as third-class citizens.