Privilege Quotes
-
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
-
It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
Nick Blaemire
-
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
-
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
-
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
Mikhail Bakunin
-
I love London, and it's a privilege for my children to grow up here.
Helen McCrory
-
I strongly believe that quality healthcare is a right all Americans deserve, not a privilege.
Juan Vargas
-
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
-
Saving for the future shouldn't be a privilege for the wealthy.
Scott Garrett
-
Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
Susan Powter
-
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.
Ryan Gosling
-
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
-
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
-
It's been a privilege to be here.
Paul Newman
-
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
Jane Austen
-
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Michael Eric Dyson