Privilege Quotes
1269 quotes by 983 authors
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If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join…
— Albert Goldbarth
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
— Quentin Bryce
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Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.
— Melanie Fiona
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This divine privilege of raising our children is a much greater responsibility than we can do alone, without the Lord's help. He knows exactly what…
— Cheryl A. Esplin
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
— H. L. Mencken
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If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
— Vanessa Kerry
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Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Education is not a privilege, it is a right!
— William J. Clinton
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That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be…
— Toby Stephens
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Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and…
— Hillary Clinton
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A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
— Ariel Gore
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It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
— Francois Arago
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The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
— William J. Clinton
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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can…
— Joan D. Chittister
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I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in…
— Herbert Hoover
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