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

“It is a trite yet urgently true observation that if America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have second-class citizens.”

“I have never felt like a second-class citizen. I consider myself a U. S. citizen. I appreciate and treasure my U. S. citizenship. I would never renounce or consider losing that citizenship. I want my children and their children to always have it.”

“We never knew what it was like to have the country’s media and political class brand people like us a possible threat. Until now.”

“I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens.”

“As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so—we believe—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.”

“What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?”

“They (Indo-Fijians) came as indentured laborers to this land and were treated harshly. They had little reason to be grateful to their colonial masters and like the indigenous Fijians. The British crown colony of Fiji was funded in part from their toil, yet they were treated like second-class citizens.”

“We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is a land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?”

“If the devil was really the master of the world, we would be dead before we knew it. He is also a citizen of the world, just like us.”