There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant. — H. Rap Brown
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. — Lena Horne
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. — Robert Benchley
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses. — James Whistler
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
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. — Zygmunt Bauman
In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens. — David S. Baxter
I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living. — Lucky Luciano
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. — John Ruskin
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. — Eugene V. Debs
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. — H. G. Wells
If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship. — Jackie Robinson
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians. — William Osler
Short Second Class Quotes
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. — Jackie Robinson
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. — Horace Greeley
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. — Gerry Adams
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo
The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity. — Grayson Perry
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. — Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
What Is Class Quotes
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow. — Colin Powell
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own. — Oscar Romero
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. — Elizabeth Blackwell
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt. — Robert Reich
What’s not measured cannot be monitored. What’s not monitored cannot be controlled. What’s not controlled cannot be directed. And, what’s not directed cannot become progress. From personal fitness to building a world class organisation, this is the essence of management. — Mahatria Ra
A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? — Sayings
Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow.
Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary. — Sayings
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? — Beah Richards
I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school. — Ricky Williams
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. — Pancho Villa
Second Rate Quotes
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. — A. A. Milne
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him. — Joe Frazier
Life always offers you a second chance. Its called tomorrow.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
China became the second biggest economy in the world by pegging their currency to the dollar at an artificially cheap rate. — Max Keiser
There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to the whines of those who have settled for a second-rate life and want you to do the same so they won't feel guilty. Your goal is not to live long; it's to live. — Max Lucado
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. — Doris Lessing
Second Class Citizens Quotes
We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth. — Mark Levin
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country. — Martin McGuinness
Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity. — Northrop Frye
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
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 will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights. — George Clooney
Women are still second-class citizens. — Joan Jett
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. — Queen Latifah
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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
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. — Bianca Jagger
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. — Dora Russell
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. — Rosa Parks
Second Class Citizen Quotes
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 be allowed to be a citizen at all. — Ginny Brown-Waite
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 that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen — Dick Cheney
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. — Muhammad Ali
You will never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. — Satchel Paige
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens. — Cindy McCain
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
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. — Wendell Willkie
People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company. — Jonah Peretti
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. — Smedley Butler
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war. — James David Vance
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is. — Tucker Carlson
The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy. — Max Keiser
Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them. — Zinedine Zidane
A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the Kafir - how to control us, to subjugate us and to kill us. “Islam has the mind of a psychopathic rapist and because its founder, the “prophet” Mohammed was in fact a psychopathic rapist himself. — Eric Allen
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve. — Hugh Hefner
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them. — Maimonides
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. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption. — Bob Hawke
As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally. — Charles Landry
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class. — C. Everett Koop
At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was. — Stephen King
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. — Sam Houston
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class. — Witold Gombrowicz
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class. — Vladimir Lenin
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work. — Michael Faraday
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. — Christopher Eccleston
I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential. — Cher
We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave. — Lindsey Graham
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union. — Thomas R. Marshall
Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop. — Elfriede Jelinek
World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are. — John Ralston Saul
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time when I had not yet grasped the significance of the fact that in my house English was a second language, or that I wore dresses while my brother wore pants, I knew--and I knew it was important to know--that Papa worked hard all day long. — Vivian Gornick
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 greater heights. They could become surgeons, CEOs, supreme court justices, secretary of state, and even president of the United States. We didn't teach our daughters that they were second-class citizens. — Diana DeGette
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