Privilege Quotes
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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.
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What a great privilege it is to be here.
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Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.
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The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
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To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.
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Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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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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Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
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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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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.
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You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
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I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?
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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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Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.
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I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
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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.
