Quotes About Second Class Citizens

#1. 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

#2. Beautiful' is bullshit, a standard created to make women into good consumers, too busy wallowing in self-loathing to notice that we're second-class citizens.

Jessica Valenti

#3. Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

#4. Most people who bother to think about plants at all tend to regard them as the mute, immobile furniture of our world - useful enough, and generally attractive, but obviously second-class citizens in the republic of life on Earth.

Stefano Mancuso

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Muhammad Ali

#7. Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

Naoyuki Ochiai

#8. 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

#9. This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, 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

#10. Women are not second-class citizens in the kingdom of God, You are 50% of the worlds population, and the mothers of the other 50%. No one can dismiss you lightly.

Gordon Hinckley

#11. So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.

Malcolm X

#12. Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

Mignon McLaughlin

#13. 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

#14. The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

Martin McGuinness

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

David S. Baxter

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

Martin McGuinness

#20. Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

William Styron

#22. 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

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

Dora Russell

#24. Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

Cindy McCain

#25. 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

#26. I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.

Frederick Lenz

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Wendell Willkie

#30. People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

Jonah Peretti

#31. 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

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

Gerry Adams

#33. 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

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

Bill T. Jones

#35. 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.

Mark Levin

#36. I am very proud I was part of the IRA in Derry and involved in repelling the designs of the British state forces against people who were being treated as second- and third-class citizens.

Martin McGuinness

#37. I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

Martin McGuinness

#38. Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.

Darrell Issa