Quotes About Privilege

For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney-client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

If I'm privileged to be elected, I'd be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

As the MP for Islington South and Finsbury, I have the privilege of representing one of the most diverse constituencies in the U.K.

Representing your country is a highlight in everybody's career.

My association with Cocoon Fertility is beyond just offering hope through assisted fertility. I am asking women to come forward and take charge of their reproductive privilege.

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

was Thomas Paine's misfortune, as mentioned, that he not only became involved but indiscreetly leaked privileged, sensitive information entrusted to him as secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs.

How could this happen in a beautiful place like Glen Ridge? What made a bunch of friendly, likeable boys, boys from fine families, boys with every imaginable advantage, do such a thing?

His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

Courtney added that as she only fancies black men and is likely going to have mixed-race children, her 'white privilege' is in any case going to be seriously dented, like at least 50% of it, and it's incredible in this day and age that she'd never met any black people in the flesh before she came to university from Dartingford which is entirely white except for three Asians

She realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity

the truth is that hierarchies of power and privilege won't disappear, every historian knows this, it's innate to human nature and inherent in all societies in all eras and equally manifests in the animal kingdom, so I can't pretend otherwise

it's such a privilege to not die prematurely

she realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity

although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older because it's such a privilege to not die prematurely, she tells them as the night draws in around her kitchen table in her cosy terraced house in Brixton