Privilege Quotes

• Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Health
  • Privilege

• When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • Society
  • Hands
  • Example

• I consider it an honor and a privilege to be here today, ... I'm also involved with Special Olympics and the Jimmy Fund, which is the Red Sox charity.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Honor
  • Charity
  • Red Sox

• I don't discount the privilege that comes with being the kid of two very great actors. All I can say is I'm very grateful that I've had their examples. And it's fun to get to share it with them.

  

  Zoe Perry
  • Fun
  • Grateful
  • Examples

• Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

  

  Bob Marshall
  • Privilege
  • Magazines
  • Parenthood

• In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is - tis he who has endured."I think the same holds true for women's rights. The incredulity in the question, "What rights don't women have presently that they are marching about?" reflects a troubling disconnect that comes from power and privilege.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Power
  • Reflects
  • Women's Rights

• The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money.

  

  Karl Lauterbach
  • Education
  • Becoming
  • Expected

• It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Prayer
  • Duty
  • Privilege

• This idea that privilege comes with position is something that's terribly antiquated and doesn't belong in a democracy. These are elected officials who chose to serve the public, and the idea of serving the public doesn't include taking gifts from someone who obviously wants something in return.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Idea
  • Position
  • Privilege

• I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Think
  • Privilege
  • Displace

• Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Survival
  • Privilege
  • Burden

• Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.

  

  William Rawle
  • Constitution
  • Capacity
  • Territory

• A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Labor
  • Privilege
  • Kicking

• Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.

  

  David Starkey
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Embrace

• It's been four years. It's been the best four years. It's been wonderful, it's been a privilege to work under Steven Moffat. But I think when you gotta go, you gotta go It's sad, I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss Comic-Con as well. It wasn't an easy decision, but I dunno, you can't play it forever. And, look, they'll get someone amazing and brilliant, and that's the great thing about the show. It continues, and it will get bigger and better. And you'll forget about me.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Decision
  • Privilege
  • Miss

• 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.

  

  David Sirota
  • Mean
  • Shooting
  • Dudes

• There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Being
  • Privilege
  • Growing Older

• It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

  

  Tertullian
  • Privilege
  • Convictions
  • Human Right

• We now have the sweetest, kindest and most generous fans from far away places - it’s a real privilege.

  

  Nick Littlemore
  • Real
  • Fans
  • Sweetest

• I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Create
  • Fears
  • Unhappiness

• ...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

  

  Beryl Reid
  • Cat
  • Privilege
  • Possess

• 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.

  

  Curtis Strange
  • Honor
  • I Am Not
  • Called

• Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.

  

  Angelica Ross
  • Places
  • Privilege
  • VIsibility

• Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Privilege
  • Initiative

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