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Quotes About Privilege

Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery.
~ Erica Goros
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
~ Brene Brown
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
~ Paul Brunton
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
~ Rachel Carson
Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.
~ James F. Twyman
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
~ George Eliot
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
~ Albert Einstein
Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.
~ William Beveridge
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay
~ Jim Carroll, Void of Course
Even ivory towers need central heating.
~ Breyten Breytenbach
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
~ Glenn Frey
Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.
~ Big Pun
Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!
~ Jean Harlow
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
~ Leonard Woolf
In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.
~ Fatima Bhutto
Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
~ Ann Richards
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Health care is a right, not a privilege.
~ Edward Kennedy
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
~ Herbert Gold
If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!
~ Noel Ignatiev