Words matter. These are the best Second-Class Quotes from famous people such as Adam Cohen, Michelle Alexander, Jean-Claude Juncker, Gita Gopinath, John Doar, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for life. These men are part of a growing undercaste – not class, caste – a group of people who are permanently relegated, by law, to an inferior second-class status.
In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.
There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.
Countless black citizens in the South couldn’t vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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.
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.
Korea can’t become a ‘first-class’ nation unless regulation and ‘a sense of power’ disappear. The nation’s politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.
The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
You have to understand when you’re organizing with women of color, you can’t use words like ‘marginalized’ and ‘second-class citizen’ loosely.
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it – I didn’t know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It’s who we are.
History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That’s what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a person, to say, ‘He is not like us. He is used to hard work in the sun. He can handle being whipped because he doesn’t feel any pain. He doesn’t need to be educated.’
Women are still second-class citizens.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn’t carry on her education.
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity – instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
Media outlets treat conservative Americans as second-class citizens whose arguments don’t need to be listened to or engaged with.
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
You don’t want a second-class set of citizens inside the United States.
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.
I’ve been really vocal about my disappointment about how the WNBA athletes get treated like second-class citizens in relations to the NBA when they’re a subsidiary.
At Manchester City, the women are not second-class citizens in any regard. We are treated exactly the same way – it’s a level playing field.
For Donald Trump, Latinos are second-class citizens. We believe we are all Americans. We believe we are strong together. There is a big difference in this sense between the two parties and the candidates.
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.
If you don’t have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class citizen.
I ran for Governor to change the priorities in Raleigh because middle class shouldn’t mean second-class.
I’m not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.
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.
