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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

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

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
Rosa Parks

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
James H. Meredith

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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


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

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













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