Top 1200 Second-Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.

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

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

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

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.

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

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

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

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.

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.

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.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

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.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

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.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

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.

You can play Mozart all you want and pretend that it gives you class, but what is class, you know? Class is a bus driver on the M103 who gets off the bus to help somebody on board even though he's tired, he's exhausted, and he's two months behind on his mortgage. That's real class.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Media outlets treat conservative Americans as second-class citizens whose arguments don't need to be listened to or engaged with.

In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I looked at the catalogue and found that there was a ceramic class offered and that there was space in that. I registered for a ceramic class and some drawing classes.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II generals it produced, my junior-high class of 1950 is the class a ton of bricks fell on from Hollywood's gut-wrenching portrayals of mother-love in '40s-era movies.

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."

It's not only inhumane to treat Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens. It's deeply un-American.

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

Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

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.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.