A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Life is a spread of surprises and it is both a privilege and a challenge to respond to things and events, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for… — Cliff Barrows Copy Share Image
Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to… — Richard Crossman Copy Share Image
When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
White Privilege is being able to take pride in your race, people assuming your poor because your white but you still have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The work that I have been doing on television has been important to me because I have had the opportunity to portray… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If we have a choice in how we die, I would say that's a privilege. I think we have a sort of… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private… — Jay London Copy Share Image
The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“...we need to let go of this idea that we’re good people, and really try to focus on understanding how our privilege… — Michelle P. King Copy Share Image
I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like,… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
“The great privilege of the Americans does not simply consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their being… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
