#Privilege Quotes

“And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.”

“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”

“Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.”

“Highly fed and lowly taught.”

“Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.”

“It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.”

“The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.”

“It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.”

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

“In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.”

“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”

“Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.”

“The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.”

“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.”

“A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.”

“If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.”

“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.”

“If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.”

“In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.”

“History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.”

“To those who are given much, much is expected.”

“I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.”

“If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.”

“I am privileged to have played basketball.”

“Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.”

“Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.”

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.”

“Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.”

“Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.”

“What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.”

“Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.”

“I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.”

“You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.”

“To those whom much is given, much is expected.”

“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”

“The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.”

“Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.”

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

“Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.”

“I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.”

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.”

“Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.”

“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.”

“Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.”

“Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.”

“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.”

“The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.”

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt”