Privilege Quotes
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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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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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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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This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
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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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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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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.
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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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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
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To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.
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Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
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We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.
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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 had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.
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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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The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
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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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It's been a privilege to be here.
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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
