Quotes About Privilege

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

A Christian writer has summed this up well: "The 'Christian state' is one that gives no special public privilege to Christian citizens but seeks justice for all as a matter of principle."6

Whiteness is not really a color at all, but a set of power relations.

As, everyone knows, water hates poor people. Given the opportunity, water will always find a way to make poor people miserable, typically at the worst time possible.

As everyone knows, water hates poor people.

Heterosexual privilege is the method by which women are given a stake in male supremacy--and ... it is therefore the method by which women are given a stake in their own oppression.

Money can buy most things and it is easy for most to become a thing for those who have the most money.

Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it degenerates into the second, and dies out in the third.

White North American Christians, especially those of us from the privileged strata of society, must come to terms with the fact that our reading site for the Gospel of Mark is empire, locus imperium.

Adam Birmingham, whose family is the richest in Britain, decides to get very drunk.

Privilege has a way of fucking with our heads the same way as lack of it does.

He reminded me of all the golden boys I'd known in my life- classically handsome and charmingly sure of his place at the very top of the heap, confident that the world was his and that he was safe in it, without ever having considered otherwise.

Tvoje p?edpoklady o život? druhých lidí p?ímo souvisejí s tvou naivní nabub?elostí. Mnozí lidé, o nichž si myslíš, že jsou bohatí, nejsou bohatí. Mnozí lidé, o nichž si myslíš, že to mají v život? snadné, museli tvrd? pracovat. Mnozí lidé, kte?í zdánliv? jen tak proplouvají životem, trp?li a stále ješt? trpí.

You're spoiled—that's all—just spoiled. Life must be great for you—do nothing and let someone else do everything.

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

The privilege isn't given to everyone.… You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it. —Henry James, 1881

It is a privilege to be in a position to offer charity and an honor to fulfill a divine obligation.

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fried chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.

Growing up Southern is a privilege, really. It's more than where you were born, it's an idea and state of mind that seems imparted at birth. It's more than loving fired chicken, football, beer, and country music. It's being hospitable and devoted to screen porches, magnolias, red velvet cake, coca cola, and each other. We don't become southern--we're born that way.

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story,—the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper.

Whatever rights or activities may be "fundamental" under the Privilege and Immunities Clause, we ware not persuaded, and hold that elk hunting by nonresidents in Montana is not one of them.