Second Class Citizens Quotes - Page 1

Women are still second-class citizens.
Joan Jett / Guitarist
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Women Are
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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
Gerry Adams / Politician
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Forever
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Inequality
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It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.
Tom Perez /
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Puerto
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Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.
Abby Johnson / Activist
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Second-Class
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People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
Jonah Peretti / Entrepreneur
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Good Work
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Work Good People
Losers
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The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.
Mitch Mcconnell / United States Senator
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Second Class Citizens
Implication
Legally
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Women
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Deserve
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Treated
Putting
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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.
Brit Marling / Film Actress
Kids
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Overwhelmed
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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 / Author
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Power Government Always
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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.
Toni Duggan /
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Manchester
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Exactly The Same
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Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
John Doar /
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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.
Jalen Rose / Basketball Player
Citizens
Disappointment
Nba
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Vocal
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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.
Mike Shinoda / Musician
Uncles
Dad
Teacher
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School
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Trusted
Japanese
Outright
Remembers
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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.
Martha Mcsally / United States Representative
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Customs
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Women Are
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Push
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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.
Michael Newdow / Attorney
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Believe
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Deny
Messages
Real
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Supreme
Supreme Being
Continuously
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Sends
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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.
Sarah Gavron / Film Director
Grandfather
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Brains
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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.
David Olusoga /
Britain
Citizens
Democracy
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Within
Armies
Ranks
Regarded
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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.
Letitia James /
New York City
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Seeking
Imperative
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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.
Paul Robeson / Singer
America
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Communist
Fighting
Rights
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States
United States
United States Of America
Basis
I Am People America
I Am Fighting People
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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.
Tim Kaine / United States Senator
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Trump
All Americans
Big Difference
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Donald
Donald Trump
Latinos
Parties
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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.
Prince Charles /
Islam
Second Class Citizens
Automatically
Representative
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We Cannot
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What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
Dennis Kucinich / Former U.s. Representative
Choices
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Democratic
Democratic Society
Equal
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Men Women Society
Women Are
Women Men Society
Otherwise
Permitted
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But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.
Martin Luther King Iii / Advocate
Human Rights
Latino
Men And Women
Native
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Self Determination
Freedom Men Women
Agricultural
All People
Freedom Women Men
Impoverished
Native Americans
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
Barbara Boxer / United States Senator
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Loyal
Permanent
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Great Never Know
Amend
Document
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Ours
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Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?
Kim Gordon / Musician
Women
Society
Anarchist
Citizens
Corporate
Culture
Made
Mean
Natural
Rebel
Second Class Citizens
White
Men Women Always
Men Women Society
Because
Rules
Men Society Always
Against
Had
Why
Make
Been
Woman
Women Men Society
Having
Revolutionaries
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History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a person, to say, 'He is not like us. He is used to hard work in the sun. He can handle being whipped because he doesn't feel any pain. He doesn't need to be educated.'
John Barnes / Author
Educated
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Slavery
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Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.
Gene Luen Yang / Writer
Brutal
Cheer
Occupation
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Taiwan
Ended
Forced
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