Acquisition Quote by David Riesman

“Well, in a world where so few of us are obliged to cook at all anymore, to choose to do so is to lodge…

— Michael Pollan

“To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from the corporations…

— Michael Pollan

“Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

— Stephane Hessel

“Privileged groups work for greater power consolidation through favoritism.”

— Bryant McGill

"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to…

— Gunnar Myrdal

“Naming oppressive realities, in and of itself, has not brought about the kinds of changes for oppressed groups that it can for more privileged…

— bell hooks

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

— Martin Luther King, Jr