Privilege Quotes
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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.
Nicole Williams
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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.
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
Carter G. Woodson
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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.
Heather Bresch
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I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
George Stoneman
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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?
Herbert Spencer
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I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.
Helen McCrory
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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.
Helen Keller
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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.
George Graham Vest
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
Scott Garrett
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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.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a privilege.
Juan Vargas
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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.
Jennine Capó Crucet
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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.
Nell Zink
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Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done.
Richard L. Evans
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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
Susan Powter
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It's been a privilege to be here.
Paul Newman
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
Jane Austen