Privilege Quotes

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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in… — Alvin Dark
I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how… — Junot Diaz
My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try… — Junot Diaz
One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky if… — Junot Diaz
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. — Diogenes
I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to… — Beth Ditto
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter Drucker
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold… — Buenaventura Durruti
I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work. — Jesse Eisenberg
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. — Desiderius Erasmus
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. — Sam Ervin
When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know… — Jimmy Fallon
Being a role model is a privilege. — Allyson Felix
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all… — Larry Hagman
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is… — Arthur Helps
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. — Lou Holtz

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