Privileges Quotes

“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not part of who i am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.”
― luvvie ajayi , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

“Privileges exist to be exploited.
The universe provides cheat codes so they can be used. He unlocked the cheat codes when everyone called him a war hero.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to contribute to someone's else oppression. It means that you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others.”
― luvvie ajayi

“Life doesn’t owe me. However, it liberally gifts me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I intend to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods(...)

When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind.”
― Pauli Murray

“John Locke and Thomas Jefferson both were great men in politics; however, they both were wrong in their beliefs of what rights men should have. Both men left out one of the most important rights than all humans should have and that right is 'equality'.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people spew racist abuse at the rest of their ancestry? What does it signify when a society rewards them for this type of behavior?”
― Daniel Greenfield

“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“I wonder how different life would be if the only thing we demanded of it was the opportunity to give back to it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But they {journalists} are still viewed as a rather privileged category. True, they no longer can ride buses free or go to the movies for free as was the case in Mussolini’s day. But they can still get into most museums or exhibitions without paying. If you’re a smooth operator you can get complimentary tickets for shows or the opera. Until recently, you could get a 30% discount on all domestic flights (now it’s 15%). And if you have trouble with any of your utilities,the utility company’s press office will be glad to give you a have in working things out. In addition, since many Italian journalists have a different sense of what constitutes a conflict of interest from what we do in the United States, they often accept any manner of gifts or paid vacations from companies they regularly cover.”
― Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“John Locke and Thomas Jefferson both were great men in politics; however, they both were wrong in their beliefs of what rights men should have. Both men left out one of the most important rights that all humans should have and that right is 'equality'.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“At the point that I have confused ‘rights’ with ‘privileges,’ I will have lost both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every friendship has its own privileges.”
― John Arthur

“What I’ve taken for granted may well be the very privileges that will be taken from me unless I take a very different view of them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When fundamental rights depend on someone's whim, you really have no rights, only privileges that may be withdrawn at any minute.”
― John Taylor Gatto, A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

“In terms of pure and humble objective morality, a right just feels right to have; however a privilege is, in a way, sort of in the way, and almost feels wrong to have (by principle that if you abuse it, you lose it).”
― Criss Jami

“To know and experience true love is the greatest of all privileges.”
― Troy Hadeed, My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different

“A time may come when the defense of freedom will demand the sacrifice of the very things that freedom has granted us. And the mark of a truly great nation is the willingness to readily abandon those privileges if called to do so in order to defend the freedom that gifted us with those very privileges.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We've no sense of the duties our privileges impose upon us, and so we refuse to recognize these duties. -Vronsky”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Weiße Privilegien sind wie ein unsichtbarer, federleichter Rucksack voller Sonderregeln, Versicherungen, Werkzeugen, Landkarten, Reiseführern, Codebüchern, Pässen, Visa, Kleidern, Kompassen, Notfallausrüstung und Blankoschecks.”
― Peggy McIntosh, Weißsein als Privileg. Die Privilege Papers: [Was bedeutet das alles?] – McIntosh, Peggy – Erläuterungen – Denkanstöße – Analyse (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)

“A society which makes eating a privilege, not a right, has no right to exist.”
― Jerry Rubin, Do It!: Scenarios of the Revolution

“Hygiene isn’t a privilege, it’s a basic expectation!”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“You give your clients more reasons to patronize you again and again when you thank them again and again.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“One client can fetch your business a thousand clients, depending on your performance and impression.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You