Second Class Quotes
75 quotes by 70 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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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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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…
— Darrell Issa
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
— H. Rap Brown
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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…
— Dick Cheney
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It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity…
— Gerard Jones
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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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First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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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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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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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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A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
— Michael Faraday
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
— Lena Horne
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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 Meredith
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The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women…
— Melissa Harris-Perry
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Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.
— Cindy McCain
Who Wrote These Second Class Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 75 Second Class Quotes, led by these top contributors: