Privilege Quotes - Page 33

• That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

  Gloria Naylor

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

  Gloria Naylor (1990). “Selected from the Women of Brewster Place”, Signal Hill Publications

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• We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Believe, Hard Work, Past

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.

  Mother Teresa

  Needs, Holiness

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• Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Blessing, Faithful

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.566

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• Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Humble, Men, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.231

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• U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.

  Noam Chomsky

  Goal, Degrees, Might

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “The Culture of Terrorism”, p.1, Pluto Press

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• The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Government, Important

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.366, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

  Sandra Boynton

  Mean, Chocolate, Doe

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• What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

  Abraham Cowley

  Brave, Solitude, Receiving

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1826). “Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse”, p.137

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• The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Groups, Intention, Individual

  "Moral Man and Immoral Society". Book by Reinhold Niebuhr, pp.6-7, 1932.

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• Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Yale, Use

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• The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Joy, Lovely

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• There's a lot of unrest. There are a lot of people who are unhappy. I don't want to say I'm their hero, but a lot of people have said that... It's like this in every job, I think. There's certain people who are afforded privileges and maybe, maybe don't deserve them.

  CM Punk

  Jobs, Hero, Thinking

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, People, Most Amazing

  "A Mighty Heart - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Real, Mean, Being In Love

  "NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE CURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS POSTS True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• ... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

  Margaret Deland

  Conflict, Claims, Personal Happiness

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.259, The Floating Press

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• Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?

  Miles Franklin

  Men, Long, Female

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• Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, America, Class

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• I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Greatness, America

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• The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.

  Deborah Tannen

  Power, Doors, Hands

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks relationships”

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• Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Eye, Feelings, Brain

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• under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Work, Opportunity, Men

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• Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

  Clemence Dane

  Rights, Havens

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• In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

  Storm Jameson

  Grief, Loss, Thinking

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• We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Talking, Sick, Dying

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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