Privilege Quotes

• The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

  Max Lerner

  Humanity, Enemy, Ethics

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• People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

  C. Wright Mills

  Believe, Self, People

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.14, Oxford University Press

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• The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Wine, Men, Rights

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• To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

  Marvin Gaye

  Eye, Heart, Artist

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• 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 the privilege of living on this planet.

  Benjamin Carson

  Kindness, People, Debt

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• In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

  Arianna Huffington

  Winning, Equality, Law

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.

  John Pilger

  Peace, Memories, Struggle

  Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech in University of Sydney, November 4, 2009.

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• Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

  David O. McKay

  Love, Inspirational, Work

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• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

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• Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Historical, Duty

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• We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Uplifting, Moving, Tears

  Michael Eric Dyson (2009). “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America”, p.231, Basic Books

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Order, Needs, Sometimes

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• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Positive, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2015

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Betrayal, Names, Voice

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• Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

  Andy Andrews

  Live Life, Choices, Wells

  FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Aug 21, 2012

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Spiritual, Journey

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.195, Macmillan

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• Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Enemy

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• Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

  Jack Klugman

  Lessons, Poverty, Teach

  "Jack Klugman obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Individuality, Heal, Undermining

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

  Joel Salatin

  Children, Food, World

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• Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Compassion, Weakness, Depth

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• Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

  Russell Kirk

  Rewards, Duty

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