Quotes About Privilege

He came from the tiny group of very grand aristocratic families who, as one of Bertie's cleverer mistresses observed, "believed they26 had the prescriptive right to rule England in the same way as they ruled their estates.

Que afinal o que importa não é haver gente com fome porque assim como assim ainda há muita gente que come (Pastelaria, Mário Cesariny)

he continued, "Elidûc said to me, 'When you meet Sindérian Faellanëos, observe her well, for then you will be privileged to see the most gifted young wizard of her generation.

It is now clear, however, that children of privilege are exhibiting unexpectedly high rates of emotional problems beginning in junior high school and accelerating throughout adolescence.

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

He said it as if 'very rich' was a nationality; as perhaps it is.

In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I

We like to say that skin color doesn't matter, but that's not always true. We often use it to open doors.

Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.

Golf Club description:] Once it had enough members to sustain itself, it began the obligatory practice of excluding others.

After all, there's no mansplaining like white mansplaining 'cause white mansplaining don't stop.

It takes a long time for white guys to appreciate that they are breakable. They do not live from birth with the daily fear that they might be attacked or detained or killed. Their bodies are not constant targets of power. Their bodies are power, so they throw those bodies up and down mountains and stairs and out of airplanes and into pointless online yelling matches for fun. They just presume they will survive.

This country is founded on some very noble ideals but also some very big lies. One is that everyone has a fair chance at success. Another is that rich people have to be smart and hardworking or else they wouldn't be rich. Another is that if you're not rich, don't worry about it, because rich people aren't really happy. I am the white male living proof that all of that is garbage.

They were members of Maine's very small money class. Their business, as they ridiculously called it, didn't make a cent, but they didn't need to make money; they were born rich. Their needless enterprise consisted of taking people to the wilderness and creating for them the sensation that they were lost there; they also took people shooting down rapids in frail rafts or canoes, creating for them the sensation that they would surely be bashed to death before they drowned.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

Here in briefest form is the modern political dialectic. It is an unequal contest: the rich and the comfortable have influence and money. And they vote. The concerned and the poor have numbers, but many of the poor, alas, do not vote. There is democracy, but in no slight measure it is a democracy of the fortunate.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.