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Quotes About Privilege

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.
~ Teju Cole
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
~ Thomas Jefferson
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
~ Edmund Burke
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I was born pretty lucky, an Aryan Australian, friendly girl, that gives you a lot of advantages in the world. I was unaware of people's fights or struggles for equality. I was really naive.
~ Sia Furler
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
~ Charles de Gaulle
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
~ Arianna Huffington
No one enjoys being equal.
~ David Mamet
No one really believes in equality who's on top.
~ Alice Duer Miller
All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.
~ Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
~ Lake Bell
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.
~ Chris Cornell
Within us is the unborn possibility of limitless experience. Ours is the privilege of giving birth to it!
~ Ernest Holmes
Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.
~ Sheldon Richman
It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
~ Andy Hargreaves
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.
~ William Arthur Ward
How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith.
~ Pope Francis
Broke a.. ni...'s can't roll with me and even rich ni...'s can't get a hold of me.
~ Unknown
Being different IS good IF you're rich, powerful, attractive, talented, and/or trendy enough to warrant it.
~ Unknown
The most judgmental 10 seconds in any person's life is the walk through first class to coach.
~ Unknown
Don't be angry with the world. It will never hear you, sympathize with you or care about you. Life is a privilege not a right. You make your own luck. You get what you put in.
~ Unknown