Quotes About Privilege

United States naturalization is a privilege not a right, and those who have had this privilege bestowed upon them must respect and uphold the laws of our land.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I am from Michigan; I am from Grosse Pointe. I was upper class growing up there.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.

In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.

I grew up upper middle class.

I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and Catholics (like myself) and women now share privileges and powers once reserved for Protestant white men.

Star kids always get an upper hand at the start of their career. People in the industry often know them from the time they were toddlers, so they show support to them when their film is about to release.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in.

Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

I believe we have the best football coach in the country in Urban Meyer. I had the privilege of hiring him, as you know, and I think he is doing fabulous work.

It's never said out aloud, or in so many words, but for many urban, upper caste Indians, 'the backwards' are precisely that - citizens of the hinterland, ungainly and otherworldly - an inconvenient blemish on their shining, gleaming future.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.