Second Class Citizens Quotes

• Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Class, Citizenship

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• I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Tired, Class, Citizens

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• In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens.

  David S. Baxter

  Class, Citizens, Kingdoms

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• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  Wendell Willkie

  Equality, Class, Doe

  An American Program ch. 2 (1944)

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• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

  Gerry Adams

  Class, Forever, Citizens

  "Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath". CAIN in the University of Ulster, December 1, 2004.

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• Women are still second-class citizens.

  Joan Jett

  Class, Citizens, Stills

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• Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

  Geena Davis

  Class, United States, Culture

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.

  Northrop Frye

  Real, Mean, Destiny

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.416, University of Toronto Press

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• If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico, we are not in China, we are not in Saudi Arabia - we speak English in this country! And what bilingual education does, is keep them from learning English, so they are doomed to be second-class citizens.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Speak English, Class

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.

  Jon Hamm

  Powerful, Book, Kids

  "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" By David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

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• I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, Class, America

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  Chris Hayes

  Children, Class, Cities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

  Satchel Paige

  Change, Baseball, Class

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• The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

  Martin McGuinness

  Country, Reality, Class

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• If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

  Ted Turner

  Life, Confidence, Thinking

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• A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the Kafir - how to control us, to subjugate us and to kill us. “Islam has the mind of a psychopathic rapist and because its founder, the “prophet” Mohammed was in fact a psychopathic rapist himself.

  Eric Allen

  Class, Mind, Islam

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• In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Art, Sex

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• It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

  Catherine Mayer

  Class, Citizens, Absurd

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people.
  That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people.

  John Shelby Spong

  Years, Class, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

  Jeff Daniels

  Country, Art, Class

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  Dora Russell

  Mean, Government, Class

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• That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Philosophy, Eye

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

  Bianca Jagger

  Class, House, Citizens

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• No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Class, House

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• It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

  George Clooney

  Gay, Rights, Law

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