Quotes about Second Class

Joan Jett

Women are still second-class citizens.

Rosa Parks

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

Gerry Adams

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

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

Satchel Paige

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

Lena Horne

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Muhammad Ali

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

Jim Bakker

God doesn't want his people to go second-class.

Martin McGuinness

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

Annaleigh Ashford

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

Susan Cain

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

Michelle Lujan Grisham

You don't want a second-class set of citizens inside the United States.

Maury Yeston

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

Asra Nomani

How could I love a faith that makes me a second class citizen?

Formally and informally orthodox Islam is one of the most sexist of the religions. In addition to the fundamentalist Christian and Orthodox discriminatory view of females, Sharia—Islamic Law—makes a woman’s testimony in court with half that of a man, prohibits women from clerical leadership, will not allow females to pray in Mosques in the main section but segregates them, and many others. Islamic customs require women to be covered head to toe in a cloak, forbids them from driving in some countries, does not allow them to be in the presence of men outside the family, mutilates young girls in brutal circumcision rituals, and many others. Not all Muslims are sexist and many call for reforms like Nomani. Turkey, the most modern and successful Islamic nation, outlawed all these discriminatory aspects of Sharia, and gave women the vote BEFORE America did.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Lena Horne

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

Michelle Alexander

For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.

Second Class Quotes