Quotes About Privilege

Some folks are born made to wave the flag;Ooh, they're red, white, and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"They point the cannon at you.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no senator's son.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no fortunate one.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

Tell me from the beginning." "It needs to be privileged." "Very well. Consider me your attorney." "You're not licensed." "Then consider me a friend.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

The rule was historically used as a tool of subjugation. If a society was going to keep blacks and whites "separate but equal" as declared by the infamous Jim Crow laws in the segregated South and antimiscegenation laws (which barred interracial marriages) that at one point existed in thirty-eight states across the country, then rules were needed to determine who would fall on each side of the stark line dividing privilege from oppression.

This perspective further argues that whites often don't recognize these systemic inequalities and thus don't acknowledge the privileges they enjoy by the virtue of being white and blame the disadvantaged position of many minorities on their own poor choices and wayward values.

In other words, they feel part of the mainstream, and they are less likely to perceive the importance of race in other people's lives. This is what some commentators would refer to as "white privilege.

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.

invisibility is a luxury.

People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

For he that hath, to him shall be given.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Além disso, ninguém pode reivindicar, em nome da religião, o privilégio da tolerância, se elimina radicalmente toda a religião mediante o ateísmo.

To me, "manners" meant sleeping linesmen at Wimbledon, and bowing and curtsying to rich people with hereditary titles who didn't pay any taxes. Manners meant tennis clubs that demanded you wear white clothes, and cost too much money to join, and excluded blacks and Jews and God knows who else. Manners meant the hush-hush atmosphere at tennis matches, where excitement of any kind was frowned upon.

This house didn't feel like poverty, just like a house owned by white people who'd stopped caring.

the kind of place that thrived on understatement and quiet privilege.

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.

Gladly would I possess the power of selecting my society. From that happy privilege I am debarred. But I seldom make one of a circle in which I do not find some novelty of character, and something either of excellence or absurdity from which I may draw improvement

A vida não é concedida a título permanente. - declarou. - É um privilegio e temos de utilizar o nosso tempo de forma judiciosa.Cabe-nos a todos fazer dela o que pudermos (...)A alma é como um pássaro em voo. Escapa-nos e voa livre de novo. Sem constrangimentos." (pág.323)

At the end of May, when the return of summer brought her a renewal of strength, they met face to face for the first time; and from that time Robert Browning was included in the small list of privileged friends who were admitted to visit her in person.

Oh, Kit. Were you ever priveleged to love where love was not given first elsewhere? Even once?

I could tell Madame was included in that "girls," and it put my back up. She had years and miles on Dyer Stone, and brains to boot. But he had a prick, and inherited money, and a prick.