Privilege Quotes
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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
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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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Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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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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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.
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
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I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a privilege.
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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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Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
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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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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
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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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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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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.
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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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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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Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
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I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
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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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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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We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
