Civil rights Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.”

— Charles Dudley Warner

“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you don't want to have your authority questioned, then you have no right to be in authority in the first place”

— Anonomyus

“Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.”

— George Hammond

“Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.”

— Pearl Cleage

“The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power.”

— Andy Crouch

“if you cannot recognize your privilege, you have a lot of work to do”

— Roxane Gay

“He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

— Austin O'Malley