Quotes About Privilege

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.