Quotes About Privilege

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

It's a privilege and an honor to play for the national team, but I think that the training that I was in at Frankfurt was the highest level right underneath.

The underprivileged are the only privileged ones in the eyes of Allah.

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

There are Black women who die while trying to give life to newborns because Black people are always overlooked, under-cared-for, underprivileged. It's been what it has been since the beginning of time. I know from my own experience dealing with the health-care system, having to spend so much money to go to the doctor and still be overlooked.

I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it's done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man's life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.

There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.

Every United player understands what United is about. The players understand it is a privilege to play for United.

This is not a slow movement of change. It's a shift in the consciousness of each of us. It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.

I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.

I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find a way to escape. They move to a great suburban district or send their kid to a private school. The people who are trapped in the worst schools that have been terrible often for half a century? Those are the poorest kids.

Having a child has been the most unexpected privilege, as I spent so long on my own thinking it would never happen.

Yes, just by the nature of the colour of my skin, I was born with privilege. And it is unfair.

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.

Recognizing your place of power and privilege in an unfair system can, as an ally, help you to start using that privilege as an opportunity to do good.

Unfortunately, generations of people have been told by their political leaders that they are more exceptional human beings than the rest of the world - this sense of privilege is incredibly toxic.

Unfortunately, oftentimes people hire and give opportunities to people that look like them. They don't realize how much their own internal lives or privilege gets in the way of looking for people outside of the traditional spaces where they always find people.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Knowledge is a sacred gem that must be conquered, wielded and empowered. To access such gnosis is not a right, but a privilege of the evolved.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.