Second-Class Citizens Quotes

Women are still second-class citizens.
Joan Jett

Women, Citizens

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

Days, Gone, Forever

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

Women, Movies, Film

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

Great, Perfect, Away

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

America, Fighting, Rights

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

Women, Men, Society

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

Teacher, Dad, School

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

Power, Government, Means

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

God, Government, Real

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