Privilege Quotes
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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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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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Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
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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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I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a 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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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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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 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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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.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
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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.
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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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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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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.
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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 value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
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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.
