Quotes About Privilege

Having virtually invented a paid profession and being almost exclusively available to the rich, doctors were suspect to the working class.

I realized this is what white people do to each other—they cultivate each other's fear. It's very violent.

We don't have to privilege accumulation over distribution. But that is the rule that governs our everyday lives—our work and our play.

Perhaps the starkest measure of the failure of our economic policies," Binyamin Appelbaum writes, "is that the average American's life expectancy is in decline, as inequalities of wealth have become inequalities of health." Meanwhile, life remains the ultimate privilege, the living lording over the dead.

Being a guest in someone else's home and slowly beginning to suspect that you have done something wrong, something of which you were not previously aware, is how it feels to have a dawning understanding of what it means to be white in this world.

Every time a president invokes executive privilege, there are three relevant audiences he has to think about: the courts, Congress, and the public.

Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.

I really feel like, on my first mission, the first mission is when you prove yourself and hopefully deserve the privilege to continue as an astronaut and remain in the corps and get granted an opportunity for a second mission.

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.

Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity, but that's still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.

It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.

I hate to sound jaded, but everything else has become routine and a business - that's what the music industry has become to me - and I have to remind myself that creating is a privilege.

I'm just happy to be doing what I always wanted to do. Sometimes you have to remind yourself how privileged you are.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

If I want to go to a dance club, I have to rent out the whole club.

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

You represent your country - that's the biggest honour ever. I had the privilege of doing that for more than 14 years.

When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.