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• Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly. — Joanna Russ
• I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I… — Josefina Vazquez Mota
• Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr
• History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be… — Gunnar Myrdal
• It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its… — David Riesman
• For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged. — Stephane Hessel

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