Privilege Quotes

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Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
All of which raises the question â€“ your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like â€“ a question which men and women, great and… — Ron Currie Jr.
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… — Frederick Douglass
Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks… — Libba Bray
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs, at… — Steven Pinker
To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right. — J R Ward
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage… — Thomas Mann
Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon… — Charles M. Schulz
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. — Chinua Achebe
When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for… — Benjamin Carson
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be… — Brandon Sanderson
Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice. — Andy Andrews
The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the… — Joseph Conrad
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand… — Emily Dickinson
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when… — Alexandre Dumas
It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in… — Stevie Smith
One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in… — Leo Tolstoy
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act. — Albert Einstein

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