A Quote by Gerry Adams

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

Gerry Adams

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Citizens Class Days Forever Gone Humiliation Inequality Over Second Second-Class

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Gerry Adams
Irish - Politician
Born: October 6, 1948

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

Sylvia Plath

American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.

Martha McSally

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

Mitch McConnell

It is unacceptable for the men and women who protect us to be treated like second class citizens over partisan bickering.

Jeff Van Drew

Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

John Doar

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

George Packer

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

Gary L. Francione

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

In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens.

David S. Baxter

Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

Mignon McLaughlin

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

Orson Scott Card

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Wendell Willkie

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

If President Obama were to enroll in an American government class, the professor would mark him absent on most days. In the first 100 days of his second term, the president has failed to show up to class, take notes and complete the daunting task of rising to the challenges facing him.

Mercedes Schlapp

In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.

Mercedes Lackey

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