A Quote by Joan Jett

Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

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Citizens Class Second Second-Class Still Women Women Are

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Joan Jett
American - Musician
Born: September 22, 1958

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

Catherine Mayer

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

I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.

Frederick Lenz

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

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.

Abby Johnson

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

Brit Marling

The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

Tammy Duckworth

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

Jeff Van Drew

Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.

Prince Charles

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

Geena Davis

I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

Paul Robeson

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.

Toni Duggan

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.

Dennis Kucinich

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.