Quotes About Privilege

Quand tu auras envie de critiquer quelqu'un, songe que tout le monde n'a pas joui des mêmes avantages que toi.

Las angustias de los infortunados no son menos dignas de atención que las crisis que revolucionan la vida de los poderosos y de los privilegiados de la tierra. Y además, ¿acaso no hay tanto dolor en unos como en otros?

THERE IS A general cry of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular beliefs precisely as the newspapers of the day, or most of them, express the opinions of their readers.

if a man such as Samuel could evolve from a common, working man into a wealthy landowner, there was hope for anyone, provided he was white, for Negroes didn't count, and Indians were dead men walking.

He unlocked the passenger door and it groaned open. "That door is loud," I said. "And this car is a gas guzzler." "That's the point," he said. "Negro men like big cars. We don't believe in conserving energy. After all we've been through, we deserve to be wasteful.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

You know, I can't afford my own private jet, but I can afford to pay other people to get off my commercial flight.

Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

The French came to Morocco to build roads, railways, hospitals, schools, fashion sense - all the things that the average Frenchman knows to be indispensable to a modern civilization - and when five o'clock came, and the French looked upon their works and saw that they were good, they reckoned they had bloody well earned the right to live like Maharajahs. Which, for a time, they did.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

I'm not even the one per cent; I'm the one per cent of the one per cent;

The prime motive of science is not to control the Universe but to appreciate it more fully. It is a huge privilege to live on Earth and to share it with so many goodly and fantastic creatures.

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

Those born with, have a duty to those born without.

We must be grateful that the Senate appreciates gold. The senators think only about new horses and slaves, but they were never poor as much as I've been poor. I appreciate gold only because of what it brings to me and this is where it's placed me - on this stairs, with the largest city in the world behind me.

Toffs?" Jack kept his eyes averted from his

Some day, I must ask him what it's like to be married to someone who, eyes narrowed in thought, peers at him over the tops of sociology articles with titles like "Who Gets the Best Deal from Marriage: Women or Men?" We've had our disagreements, of course. When, for example, are a few dirty cups a symbol of the exertion of male privilege, and when are they merely unwashed dishes?

Hey dawg, wassup?" he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound like young black men from underprivileged backgrounds. A linguistic fashion as peculiar as the lisp that everybody in medieval Spain had to adopt after the king developed a speech impediment.

He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.' I smiled, picturing the cozy fireside scene of young son on father's knee being inducted into the world of abusive epithets.

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

Unjust systems appear normal to those in power, and any change will produce feelings of loss. True reconciliation, through the cross of Jesus, will affect the lives of the privileged. The colonizer has to completely leave the confines of power and privilege and join with those who are colonized. Of the colonizer Memmi declared, "let him adopt the colonized people and be adopted by them; let him become a turncoat.

Reconciliation for the powerful and privileged means trusting those who have lived under oppression and even following their lead in becoming one new humanity.

The seduction of whiteness and privilege is powerful. Whites can always return to a life of privilege.

God lurks in the shadows of the palaces of power and privilege, waiting for activists to dismantle the very structures that lock society into the evil of institutionalized injustice and separation.