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  • If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

  • I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.

    Girl   Fighting   Class  
    Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.
  • Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen

    Country   Home   Gay  
  • We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.

    Tired   Class   Sick  
  • 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.

    Years   Class   People  
    Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com
  • 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.

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

    Kids   Class   Citizens  
  • 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.

    Country   Believe   Past  
    "Romania demands equality - Europe - International Herald Tribune" by Nicholas Wood, www.nytimes.com. August 29, 2006.
  • Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.

    Religious   Mean   Space  
    Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub
  • 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.

    Dream   Philosophy   Eye  
    Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963
  • The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

    Country   Reality   Class  
  • 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.

    Girl   Art   Sex  
  • 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.

    Country   Art   Class  
    Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.
  • 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.

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

    Change   Baseball   Class  
  • 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.

    Children   Class   Cities  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

    Tired   Class   Citizens  
  • 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.

    "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.
  • 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.

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

  • Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

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

    Equality   Class   Doe  
    An American Program ch. 2 (1944)
  • Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.

    War   Class   Battle  
  • Women are still second-class citizens.

    Class   Citizens   Stills  
  • As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

    Rita Mae Brown (1987). “Poems”
  • Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.

    Girl   Sports   Football  
  • Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

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

  • We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

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