Yet how can a society reach its full potential if half its population is too often treated as second class citizens?

然而，如果一半的人口经常被当作二等公民对待，这个社会怎么可能充分发挥潜力？

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Older people should not be treated as second-class citizens.

不应把老年人当二等公民对待。

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We will not see significant progress as long as women are regarded as second-class citizens in so many parts of the world.

只要世界许多地方仍将妇女视为二等公民，我们就不会取得重大进展。

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"We've been together four years and it's wonderful that we're no longer completely second class citizens.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Supporters of the code, more than a decade in the making, praised it as enhancing the rights of women and girls, who they say have been traditionally viewed as second-class citizens.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

They included many from Aberystwyth, who claimed students who wanted to learn through Welsh were being treated as "second class citizens".

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | Mid | Student road block halts minister

"There must be no second class citizens in this country, " he wrote.

WHITEHOUSE: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who do not attend college are second-class citizens in a cultural sense first, and in an economic one only second.

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