Privilege Quotes
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The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?
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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.
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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.
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I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a privilege.
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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.
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It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
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If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies.
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
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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.
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Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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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.
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We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
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If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.
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Losing privilege can feel a lot like inequality. If something feels unfair to you as a white person, it's likely that equality is actually being achieved in that moment.
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Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
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Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
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Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.
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There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
