Privilege Quotes
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I do feel a responsibility. It's a privilege to be able to speak about it, but I don't speak for all gay people.
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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 happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a 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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Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.
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I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
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Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
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It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.
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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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I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.
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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.
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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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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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Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
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I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a privilege.
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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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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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Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
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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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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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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'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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The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
