Privilege Quotes - Page 9

• It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

  Charles Tupper

  Taken, Rights, Catholic

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• In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

  Robin Morgan

  Running, Giving Up, Men

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

  Lucretia Mott

  Foundation, Shakes, Great Change

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• It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

  George F. Kennan

  Men, Enemy, World

  George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Book, Beer, Pride

  Common Misquotations introduction (1934)

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• Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

  Faye Wattleton

  Issues, Abortion, Fundamentals

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• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

  Hannah Arendt

  Freedom, Taken, Progress

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

  Salman Rushdie

  Freedom, Struggle, Doe

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Race, White Privilege, Choices

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• To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inalienable Rights, Spirit, Members

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.394

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• The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Practice, Justice

  The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.

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• To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, People, Citizens

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

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• There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Profound, Sublime

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

  Jacques Barzun

  Swings, Intellectual, Opinion

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

  Charles Hodge

  Teacher, Believe, Knowing

  CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.48

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• Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

  Earl Warren

  People, Age, Complaining

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, p. 43, 1980.

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• Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Teacher, My Birthday, Would Be

  "How to be a Good Teacher". Book by Rupal Jain, p. 138, 2013.

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• I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

  Natalie Merchant

  Sight, Musician, Lost

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• People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Risk, Investing

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,
  And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;
  Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,
  Subjected tribute to commanding love,
  Against whose fury and unmatched force
  The aweless lion could not wage the fight
  Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

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• Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.

  Brenda Ueland

  Love, Work, Passion

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world. I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way-to people in need.

  Teri Hatcher

  Jobs, Women, Blessed

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• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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