Privilege Quotes
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The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans.
Eugene Dubois
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There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.
Nick Blaemire
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Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the racist event.
Eileen O'Brien
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In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.
Aristotle
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.
George B. Cortelyou
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We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.
Tim Johnson
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He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and I never wanted to go back, because to me it is a great privilege to be an American citizen.
Anton Cermak
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It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
William Faulkner
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Privilege is not a right but a reward…
R. M. Williams
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My whole life I have passed for a "normal person," a cisgender straight guy, and this has afforded me a life of privilege, virtually no name-calling or bullying or hardship around my sexuality really at all.
Nicholas Petricca
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We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
John Lewis
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Coding is a privilege, but that privilege is not available to most Americans.
Ali Partovi
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I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van Morrison on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.
Andrew Loog Oldham
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Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
Simon Wiesenthal
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What a great privilege it is to be here.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
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It is the artist’s privilege to seek his material where he pleases, and it is no man’s privilege to say him nay.
Arthur Morrison