Privilege Quotes - Page 18

• What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

  Morris Dees

  Unique, Our World, Color

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• The pain that you hold is yours. There is not a single pain quite like it. Nobody else on God's green earth can feel this pain, or have the indescribable feeling of pride you will have when you overcome it. This pain is not your curse; this pain is your privilege.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Pain, Pride, Feelings

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• I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Mind, Realms

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• As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

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• To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.

  Pope Francis

  Saint, Vocation

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• If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.

  Nicole Williams

  Men, Needs, Ifs

  Nicole Williams (2012). “Clash”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Zero, Identity, Steps

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.107, Vintage

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• Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

  Sara Sheridan

  Dream, Responsibility, Rights

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• I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

  Bryan Singer

  Able, Speak, Paint

  "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer". www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.

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• This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Opportunity

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

  Francis Quarles

  Plato, Prejudice, World

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• Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

  Tommy Douglas

  Order, Class, People

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• White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.

  Paula Rothenberg

  Moving, Responsibility, Names

  "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.

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• White privilege is the other side of racism.

  Paula Rothenberg

  White Privilege, Racism, Sides

  "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.

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• We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

  Michelle Rhee

  Kids, Rights, Priorities

  "'100 mph' school chief seeks 'radical changes'". Interview with Kate Bolduan, www.cnn.com. September 9, 2008.

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• We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Adventure, People, Mind

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• I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

  Jim Goldberg

  Intuition, Intimacy, Guides

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• The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
  midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

  Plato

  Soul, Awakening, Life Is

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• Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Winning, Men

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• Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Motherhood, Soul

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• I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.

  Peter Drucker

  Exercise, People, Appreciate

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.303, Routledge

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• The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Responsibility, Ranking

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

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• Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Inspiring, Fighting, Men

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• Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Men, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Important, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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