Quotes About Privilege

even if we took every white supremacist on the planet and shipped them off to Mars, there would still be racism. That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if we don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power…and who has access to it.

I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I

It must be pretty awful for a white man to learn that one of the things wrong with this society is that it is not based on dollars directly or alone, but dollars denied men who are black so dollars can go into the pockets of men who are white. It must make white men ponder a kind of weakness that will make them deny work to black men so that work can be done by men who are white.

We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact!

The common people?—pah. What are they to us? You and I, mein Freund, we are lords of the earth, the great ones, the major men, the makers of supreme fictions.

His position, like so many of his ilk, was one of uncontested and unearned respect.

REMIND YOURSELF THAT LEADERSHIP IS A PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others; it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

Leaders have to grow into their roles, and if the role becomes more demanding, the leader has to keep growing. Leadership is never a right. It's a privilege and a responsibility. But it's one that is open to anyone who's willing to work hard enough to get it.

They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting rooms and places where the aged and the infirm waited sniffily for the angel of death in front of their television sets.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

If I were a boy, I'd get away with a lot of things. Being a man comes with responsibilities.

Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

If it's for everyone, it's not exclusive.

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

I am a limousine liberal.

I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

If you got a hit and you're white, there are no limits to what you can do.