Quotes About Privilege

If youre the Kardashians, a family vacation means private jets to the Maldives, luxury yachts, and 5-star dinners. But for the rest of us, its usually more about endless car trips, gas station meals, bratty little sisters, and about ten trillion embarrassing moments.

Everyones entitled to be stupid but you are abusing the privilege.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

Thank god for being pretty...You get away with alot!

I hate being around really rich people, there kinda weird.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

It's amazing to forget that being able to sleep and wake up to see another day is never a right but a divine privilege.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit. Gentlemen,

the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You

As the Congressman rose, I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

He was attired like an asshole, which is to say that he wore the long black tails, gray slacks, and top hat of an English gentleman or a nineteenth-century European nobleman, their refined manners and exquisite fashions suiting them perfectly for overseeing genocidal empires that looted nonwhite countries, enslaving and/or massacring their inhabitants, and sanctifying the results with the name "civilization.

Even poor people in America had refrigerators, not to mention running water, flush toilets, and twenty-four-hour electricity, amenities that even some of the middle class did not have back home. Why, then, did I feel poor?

Even with liberal white people, one could go only so far, and with average white people one could barely go anywhere.

Like the homeless, refugees are living embodiments of a disturbing possibility: that human privileges are quite fragile, that one's home, family, and nation are one catastrophe away from being destroyed.

For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

It was class against class in the immediate years after the Second World War, with the CIA helping the ruling elites to maintain their property and privilege against democracy.

Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom. They had no idea how harsh the rest of the world was.

Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses. This and this alone is the reason why the office-holders in our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted (or, more precisely, have a tendency to be corrupted) by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to being turned into bureaucrats, i.e. privileged persons cut off from the masses and standing above the masses

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.