Quotes About Privilege

I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't integrated and who doesn't live his life according to German values.

I consider myself privileged to play alongside the best in the world.

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.

As footballers we are in a really privileged position so it's good to give back to the community.

Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background.

I didn't even realize I was quite privileged. But I am. I got money. I've never been stopped by a police officer.

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking like a model to bring attention to that.

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.

Being a boss has been one of the greatest privileges and challenges of my life.

As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.

I'm fully aware of how lucky I am to do the work I do. I work really, really hard, and there are a lot of privileges and perks that come with the job.

One of the great privileges of my job as a curator is occasionally taking people up onto the roof of Hampton Court for a tour.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.