Quotes About Privilege

Adult children of toxic parents have an especially difficult time with their anger because they grew up in families where emotional expression was discouraged. Anger was something only parents had the privilege of displaying.

It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.

photographs are a means of making "real" (or "more real") matters that the privileged and the merely safe might prefer to ignore.

I always took equal justice for granted. It was kind of a shock to realize how much depends on access to money and power.

Though familiar with the term white privilege, she foolishly hadn't believed it applied to her. Privileged was the last word she would use to describe herself. She had grown up poor, with a teen mom, and she'd been a school dropout. Jerome had been raised in a loving family that gave him a firm foundation, an education, a solid career. Yet despite all the advantages, he and his boys struggled with matters she could barely imagine.

America had created a marvelous economic machine, but evidently one that worked only for those at the top. "Of the 1% for the 1% by the 1%

Well-spoken white people from prominent families came out on top in our broken court system. It wasn't fair, but it was true.

He was young, and he had grown up wealthy; he didn't have the context. In his head she'd faced the consequences he would have had to face. Embarrassment. An angry parent. A different, maybe less impressive school. He was not from a place where people got only one shot or were allowed only one mistake. In his world there were infinite chances.

heaven in a gaze, A heaven of heavens, the privilege Of one another's eyes.

Han visto cómo se enriquece el que detenta el poder?

que éste era un país donde un hombre manda la parada por el hecho de venir del norte; que para la mitad de sus huéspedes, pomposos y arribistas, estar en el hotel era de alguna manera estar en el extranjero. Así era: una habitación en el hotel de la familia Guterman era, para la mayoría de aquellos criollos pretenciosos, la única oportunidad de ver el mundo, el único papel de importancia que podían tener en su minúscula obrita de teatro.

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.

Unacknowledged privilege and the subtle or blatant use of power over others inevitably create division, anger, disempowerment, depression, shame, and disconnection.

In Tuzla, erzählt sie, gebe es Kinder, die noch nie eine Portion Pommes frites gesehen haben. Hach, denke ich, so viel Elend auf der Welt. "Und Sie", frage ich, "schon mal eine Portion Pilav gesehen?" Sie stutzt. "What's Pilav?" "Fastfood"' sage ich. "Landestypisch." Das habe ich von der Menütafel an der Wand in ihrem Rücken abgelesen. Sie wechselt das Thema.

Los jóvenes de hoy en día no sois conscientes de los privilegios que tenéis, os parece natural tener de todo… por eso no apreciáis nada

Some things were beyond her reach. In her sheltered life, she'd never realized that until now. She hadn't expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she'd always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, then she would be rewarded.

They had that air about them - five hundred years of breeding and a membership to White's.

The Gandhis are not ordinary Indians.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.

I think I've come through the art-industrial complex - I've been educated in some of the best institutions and been privy to some of the insider conversations around theory and the evolution of art.