A Quote by Satchel Paige

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

Satchel Paige

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Baseball Change Citizen Class Immortal Only Paige Second Turned

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Satchel Paige
American - Baseball Player
July 7, 1906 - June 8, 1982

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 ran for Governor to change the priorities in Raleigh because middle class shouldn't mean second-class.

Roy Cooper

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

Siegbert Tarrasch

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.

Lee Kun-hee

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

Ted Turner

I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen.

Dabo Swinney

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

Rosa Parks

If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class citizen.

Arlene Phillips

You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.

Linda Sarsour

No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

Rahm Emanuel

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.

Michael Horse

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.