Quotes About Privilege

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

But Jack was not Polish scum of the earth, barefoot and chained to the land, or even French scum of the earth, in wooden clogs and in thrall to the priest and the tax-farmer, but English scum of the earth in good boots, equipped with certain God-given rights that were (as rumor had it) written down in a Charter somewhere, and armed with a loaded gun.

For one of the toxic things about Lineages was that rich avout could get not-so-rich ones to do things for them in exchange for better food, better drink, and better lodging.

To paraphrase Tolstoy, all rich places were alike, but each poor place was poor in its own way.

Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days.

Like in Animal Farm, which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others?

And sometimes I forget that powerful people rarely do all they can to help those who cannot help themselves.

Each of us, for all practical purposes, is unique in the universe—now and forever. Being alive is the time to celebrate being alive—every waking moment. Along the way, why not strive to make the world a better place today than yesterday, simply for the privilege of having lived in it.

What a privilege we have to tell the world how Christ has come to meet our most critical and foundational needs: identity, acceptance, security and significance.

The only passport you need in America is American Express.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD once wrote, "The rich are different from you and me," to which Hemingway famously replied, "Yes, they have more money.

Sara looked at the well-kept houses along the road. "These Communist pigs have beach clubs, good food, and access to foreign goods that the Cuban people can only dream about.