Privilege Quotes
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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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There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.
Geoff Rickly
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What a great privilege it is to be here.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
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When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
Alan Brien
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As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
Tommy Lee Jones
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I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
William Hurt
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It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.
Bob Lefsetz
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Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.
Claudius Claudianus
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I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
Sarah Palin
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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.
Bill Burr
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When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
Ethel Waters
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I consider myself hugely privileged to work at such a wonderful place as Ashdown, where I can step back into history and be inspired by both the setting and the people associated with it.
Nicola Cornick
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I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Todd Akin
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I'm sure you know a lot of people who were born into privilege and amounted to absolutely nothing. We all have greatness within us. So it is really important for everyone to figure out what God put us on Earth to do, and steer clear of the seven pervasive lies that often blindside people.
Farrah Gray
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There is nothing wrong when the Trump administration says it wants to find areas of common ground to work with Russia - perfectly reasonable. The question is, are you willing to pay the Russians in advance for the privilege of working with them in areas that are supposed to be of common interest, and that - I don't see the American interest in doing so.
Daniel Fried
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
Muhammad Iqbal
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In addition to being in constant communion with God, we are to spend regular periods of time in focused, one-on-one interaction with our Creator. And what a privilege! To have access to the throne room of heaven anytime we choose is a divine benefit we should not ignore.
Bob Lepine
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
Keith Crown
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When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
Benjamin Carson
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I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency of the United States. It is one of the greatest challenges that any human being could take upon themselves.
Rick Perry