Quotes About Privilege

The White middle and governing classes wish both to reduce the cost of public education to themselves and to find protected privilege for their children and grandchildren in segregated schools. Many of the myths that you will encounter in what follows serve both of these ends: Cut the cost of schooling; and further segregate schools to the advantage of the White middle class.

Tucked in safe suburban redoubts, kids who had it soft like me manufactured peril.

As "friends of the Bridegroom," to be helps and witnesses to the betrothal of sinners to Jesus; to stand by and see the salvation of God; to watch the operations of his hand; to guide and encourage his ransomed ones on their way Zionward; and to see many of them safe home before himself,—this is the privilege of a faithful elder. It

it seems to me that this kind of hero—privileged, self-assured, the perpetual heir to the kingdom, and not averse to violence—has been and continues to be lauded throughout history.

If 1 percent of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call "the free market" reflects what they think is useful or important.

Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed anything, it was this: that while those in situations of power and privilege often feel it as a terrible burden of responsibility, in most ways, most of the time, power is all about what you don't have to worry about, don't have to know about, and don't have to do.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

The management of the New York fiscal crisis pioneered the way for neoliberal practices both domestically under Reagan and internationally through the IMF in the 1980s. It established the principle that in the event of a conflict between the integrity of financial institutions and bondholders' returns, on the one hand, and the well-being of the citizens on the other, the former was to be privileged.

For the elite, living comfortably in their gilded ghettos, the world must indeed seem a better place.

a button that elites can press to open the door to the masses

The utility of "structural" racism for demagogues like Jackson is that even while acknowledging that the vast majority of whites are no longer overtly racist, the concept makes all whites guilty nonetheless. No individual white has to be a racist in actual thought or deed to participate in the racist system or to reap its privileges.

Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet but from moral standards as well.

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

If you can afford a strong defence you can get away with whatever you want these days.

Peterson has stern advice for parents whose children are being taught white privilege, equity, diversity, inclusivity, and systemic racism: take them out of the class because they are not being educated but indoctrinated.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours!

Just the privilege of fellowship with God is infinitely more than any thing that God could give. When he gives himself he is giving more than anything else in the universe.

Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.