Privilege Quotes · Page 40

We desperately need a president who acknowledges white privilege and seeks to equalize a system that is nothing short of a betrayal…

— Jessica Tarlov

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

— Francois Arago

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

— Mother Jones

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

— Jon Bon Jovi

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual…

— Muhammad Iqbal

“If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.”

— DaShanne Stokes

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

— Mikhail Bakunin

There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.

— Trey Gowdy

“I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They…

— Cheryl Benard quoting Shahla Asad

I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual -…

— Marilyn Frye

We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite…

— David Lammy

Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon.…

— Noam Chomsky

Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all…

— Joanna Macy

There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where…

— Robin Roberts

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps,…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars…

— Larry Hagman

They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.…

— Thomas Frank

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in…

— Storm Jameson

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, but we are not. Each day, ours is the challenge to access the power…

— Russell M. Nelson

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory…

— Pete Townshend

History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just…

— Antony Hegarty

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance,…

— Hannah Arendt

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve…

— Albert Einstein

Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people…

— Crystal Robinson

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

— Leonard Cohen

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home…

— Suzanne La Follette

The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an…

— Thomas S. Monson

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from…

— Alexander Pope

Marrying Cristina Bayardelle, now Cristina Cawthorn, is the greatest honor, privilege, and adventure of my life.

— Madison Cawthorn

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I don't mind getting older; it's a privilege denied to so many! - Chris Geiger”

— Chris Geiger

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

— Paul Wolfowitz

The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and…

— John G. Lake

“Privilege is often invisible to those who have it. Try looking at the world from another perspective, listen to other people, then…

— Nevo Zisin

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy…

— Cadel Evans

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key…

— Max Blumenthal

“She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.”

— John Peter Nettl

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The only privilege star kids enjoy is a good launch. That, of course, is important.

— Ayushmann Khurrana