A Quote by Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

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Mitch McConnell
American - Politician
Born: February 20, 1942

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

Paul Robeson

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

Gerry Adams

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

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

John F. Kennedy

I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

Martin McGuinness

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

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.

Jackie Robinson

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

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

Marty Meehan

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

Dave Foley

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

David S. Baxter

Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico, we are not in China, we are not in Saudi Arabia - we speak English in this country! And what bilingual education does, is keep them from learning English, so they are doomed to be second-class citizens.

Rafael Cruz

The 1986 act didn't turn illegal immigrants into citizens on the spot. It granted temporary resident status only to those who could prove they had resided continuously in America for five years. After 18 months, their status could be upgraded to permanent residency, and only after another five years could they become U.S. citizens.

Edwin Meese

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