Second Class Citizen Quotes

#1. 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.

Queen Latifah

#2. 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

Dick Cheney

#3. 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.

Traian Basescu

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

Rosa Parks

#5. 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

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

Satchel Paige

#7. 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.

Jason Alexander

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

Ted Turner

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. When we can't see ourselves in our history, we begin to think that we are disconnected and suffering alone. Historical ignorance always precedes cultural imbalances and individual despair.

Aurin Squire

#12. For the first time in my life, I fully understand the expression "I can't hear myself think.

Lauren Henderson

#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. Psychology, and medicine. Accounts of scientific lives in neuroscience

Anonymous

#15. Apathy.

The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?

Christina Engela

#16. Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.

Malcolm X

#17. I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.

Carl Yastrzemski

#18. I don't know how much I can be bothered to have to lose the baby weight. It's such a pain ... I'm not one of those people for whom it magically drops off.

Kate Winslet

#19. We need strength. We don't have it. When Jeb [Bush] comes out and he talks about the border, and I saw it and I was witness to it, and so was everyone else, and I was standing there, "they come across as an act of love," he's saying the same thing right now with radical Islam.

Donald Trump

#20. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

#21. Janaka gave his daughters to the sons of Dashratha, saying, 'I give you Lakshmi, wealth, who will bring you pleasure and prosperity. Grant me Saraswati, wisdom. Let me learn the joy of letting go.' This ritual came to be known as kanya-daan,

Devdutt Pattanaik

#22. Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

Matsuo Basho

#23. If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

Paulo Coelho

#24. If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

Joan Collins