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Women are still second-class citizens.
I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.
You don't want a second-class set of citizens inside the United States.
We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.
The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.
Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.
It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.
We know in our hearts that none of us get ahead when some of us are stuck with second-class status.
In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.
Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.
The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.
At Manchester City, the women are not second-class citizens in any regard. We are treated exactly the same way - it's a level playing field.
You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
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.
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
I've been really vocal about my disappointment about how the WNBA athletes get treated like second-class citizens in relations to the NBA when they're a subsidiary.
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.
I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.
In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.
Britain went to war in 1939 in the name of freedom and democracy, but fielded armies within whose ranks were black and brown men who were regarded and often treated as second-class citizens.
It is imperative that we set the national example and make it clear that companies seeking to do business in New York City cannot be allowed to treat their workers like second-class citizens.
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.
For Donald Trump, Latinos are second-class citizens. We believe we are all Americans. We believe we are strong together. There is a big difference in this sense between the two parties and the candidates.
Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.
I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.
We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.
In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.
Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.