Quotes About Privilege

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

I'm fortunate to have blue eyes!

The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

I do get free stuff.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

To be white in President Trumps America is to fundamentally belong.

Il y aurait hypocrisie ou naïveté à croire que la loi est faite pour tout le monde au nom de tout le monde ; [...] il est plus prudent de reconnaître qu'elle est faite pour quelques-uns et qu'elle porte sur d'autres; qu'en principe elle oblige tous les citoyens, mais qu'elle s'adresse principalement aux classes les plus nombreuses et les moins éclairées

She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.

I don't know what it is to be hungry

And, as to her papa, there is nothing so grand in being an Indian officer.

She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

Travel is a privilege because it gives you the world you were not given. It allows you to be extant in other versions.

Kad god poželiš nekoga kritizirati, rekao mi je, samo se sjeti da svi ljudi na svijetu nisu imali prednosti koje si ti imao.

Honestly,' she said when they were out of Bruce's earshot, 'he's as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do on the servant's night off, anyway?' Lila looked Jessica straight in the eye. 'Cold lobster and caviar,' she said earnestly.

Pe vremea cand eram mai tanar si mai influen?abil, tata mi-a dat un sfat care de atunci mi-a ramas prezent in minte. -Ori de cate ori ai pofta sa critici pe cineva, mi-a spus, ?ine seama ca nu to?i oamenii au avut avantajele de care te-ai bucurat tu.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo en el que no he dejado de pensar desde entonces. «Antes de criticar a nadie», me dijo, «recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú».

Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è mai più uscito di mente. Quando ti vien voglia di criticare qualcuno mi disse ricordati che non tutti a questo mondo hanno avuto i vantaggi che hai avuto tu.

Jei kada nor?si k? pasmerkti, prisimink, jog ne visi žmon?s tur?jo toki? galimybi?, koki? tur?jai tu.

But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn't suspect his own ignorance.

Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.

All rebels are closet aristocrats.