Quotes About Privilege

There can't be reverse racism against a group that is not at a disadvantage.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

There is a law against discrimination in England. But there is a different law for the royal family.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.

It is not a cliche to say golf is for the well-off. It is the reality. But the old system which used to make it elite is fading away.

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip us, tear us apart, and put us back together. We are our stories.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

My father loved the single-handed backhand, so to him, that was the main goal; we were always fascinated by that shot. He taught me all the technique and how to structure my game. I was really privileged to have a father like that.

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

I always said it was a privilege to end up on the television. It wasn't my ambition; I fell into editing magazines and writing about cars, and then I ended up on the telly.

People say the justice system is color-blind, but it isn't. It sees color, and it sees green. It will always see green. We like to think our courts are the great equalizer between the powerful and the powerless, but more times than not, money and power still prevail. To the Jack Devines of this world, Bennet wasn't the victim because in Jack Devine's way of thinking, everything was OK because he paid for it.

You know that saying, the one I've told the kids about growing old being a privilege, not a right?

Growing old is a privilege, not a right.

In America we have Rockefellers for breakfast.

He was a rich white Conservative male, Mr. Strike, and he felt the corridors of power were best populated exclusively by rich white Conservative males. He sought, in everything, to restore a status quo he remembered in his youth. In pursuit of that objective, he was frequently unprincipled and certainly hypocritical.

Well, that's the upper classes for you," said Strike. "By all means throttle their kids, but don't touch their horses.