Privilege Quotes

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.

I am privileged to have your illuminating presence in my life that adds etherealness to my existence!

To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.

Rights’ are ‘privileges, ’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

It's the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog's life in god’s world.

Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever

If you have to stretch that far to reach the justification you want, then perhaps you’re standing upon the wrong pedestal.

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.

Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

History is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibi

What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.

If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.

When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.

We have been blessed with the privilege to live life. May we live to the fullness.

Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege of finding.

The gift of life is the only privilege you desperately need to turn your goals and dreams into realities.

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.

It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.

Studies show that girls - especially smarter ones - have severe problems in the area of self-confid

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.

It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

My duty is to pray. I know God hears my prayers.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

Our imagination is God’s ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can’t see only because we’ve yet to create them.

Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?

How do you explain a world that gifts evil men with privilege and wealth and looks the other way while they torment and abuse the weakest members of society?

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

You can get the man out of stone-age, but not stone-age out of man.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.