Privilege Quotes
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You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
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Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
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The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
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However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.
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In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.
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I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.
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It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
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I think it's a wonderful honor and privilege to be called that. But you do it to his face. I ain't doing it.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
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To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable. My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
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I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
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Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
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Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.
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We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.
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Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.
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I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
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The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.
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Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.
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Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.
