Privilege Quotes
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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.
Steven Biko -
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 savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente -
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 -
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
Mikhail Bakunin -
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
Jane Austen -
I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.
Will Friedle -
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?
Erin Gruwell
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I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
Norah Vincent -
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 -
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.
Rick Perry -
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.
Benjamin Carson -
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.
Bradford Cox -
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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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.
Paul Newman -
We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.
Eric Reid -
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.
Harry Shearer -
To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.
Ryan Gosling -
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins