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It's a way of denying a woman her full human rights and relegating her to second-class status.

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Wade is just the beginning of the right-wing’s plans to make women second-class citizens and a type of chattel and the property of their husbands, fathers and the other men in their lives.

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Despite that, FDR was disdained by former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as having “a second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.”

“As the leader of this organization, the general manager sets the culture and tone. Condoning his behavior tells the women of Metropolitan that they are indeed second-class citizens, that inappropriate behavior is encouraged and rewarded.”

“Hey, we’re going to build one for baseball and football, basketball and hockey. Boom, that’s done. And what happened is, you did end up with a lot of these second-class tenants in these facilities.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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