Quotes About Privilege

IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo que he tenido en cuenta desde entonces. Cada vez que sientas deseos de criticar a alguien - me dijo-, recuerda que no todas las personas de este mundo han tenido los mismos privilegios que tú.

Cuando quieras criticar a alguien, me dijo, recuerda que toda la gente de este mundo no ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú.

El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' He

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Wann immer du an jemandem etwas auszusetzen hast, sagte er, vergiss nicht, dass nicht alle auf dieser Welt einen so leichten Start hatten wie du.

Cuando sientas deseos de criticar a alguien" -dijo- "recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las mismas oportunidadades que tú tuviste.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had

wherever people played polo and were rich together.

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—

Kui ma noorem ja mõjutatavam olin, andis isa mulle kord head nõu, mille üle ma siiamaani mõtteid mõlgutan. «Kui sul tuleb tahtmine kedagi kritiseerida,» sõnas ta mulle, «siis tuleta endale meelde, et mitte kõikidel inimestel siin ilmas ei ole neid eeliseid olnud mis sinul.»

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made....

The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.

If money can buy a better house or car or even a yacht, that's one thing. But if it can buy citizenship, special access to public spaces, preferential treatment at colleges, and favors from politicians, it becomes a corrupting and corroding force.

America was defined by "private opulence and public squalor.

Und so schleppe ich mein Leben damit hin, das zu tun, was ich nicht will, und das zu erträumen, was ich nicht haben kann, absurd wie eine stehen-gebliebene öffentliche Uhr. Nur die zarte, aber feste Sensibilität, der lange, aber vollauf bewusste Traum, bilden in ihrer Gesamtheit mein Halbschattenprivileg.

Cada vez que te sientas inclinado a criticar a alguien- me dijo- ten presente que no todo el mundo ha tenido tus ventajas.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.