Quotes About Privilege

This town was built on nepotism.

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

As a British rider, it's a privilege to be able to compete on home roads. The British public have really taken to cycling, and you can see that when the race goes through different towns: the community really gets behind it.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.

If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

Whatever we do, whatever our backgrounds, we've all had some kind of advantage somewhere along the way. Some break that might have gone to someone else. Some edge or inside track we couldn't have counted on.

I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.

I have the great privilege and honor of serving as the Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world's largest trade association representing the blockchain industry.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.

This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.

Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

No aristocrat would sit in the wild grass to dream. Aristocrats have gardens for that, if they dream at all.

No matter what you decide, knowing you has been the greatest privilege of my life.

She understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.

Just as twenty-first century masters of the universe exploit workers, lobby for tax loopholes, and devise or reap profits from predatory business practices, [Thomas] Jefferson and his peers found it very hard to give up the unearned advantages of systems of exploitation.

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.