Class Citizens Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
— Gerry Adams
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We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could rise to even…
— Diana DeGette
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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.…
— Bob Hawke
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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
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It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear…
— Tom Harkin
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The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.
— Martin McGuinness
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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'…
— Michael Newdow
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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…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now,…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
— Jonah Peretti
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Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.
— Cindy McCain
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
— Dora Russell
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In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens.
— David S. Baxter
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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…
— George Clooney
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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…
— Ginny Brown-Waite
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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…
— Haile Selassie
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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…
— Mike Shinoda
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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Class Citizens Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Class Citizens Quotes, led by these top contributors: