Privilege Quotes - Page 22

• Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

  Julio Frenk

  Care, Commodity, Humans

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the benefits. We've sold out the rest of life on earth for convenience, creature comforts, and cheap consumer goods, and it's appalling. I'm sickened by this bargain.

  Lierre Keith

  Thinking, Civilization, Rest Of Life

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• So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

  Paul Bettany

  Children, Support, Earning

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• I want nothing to do with privilege.

  James Gandolfini

  Want

  "Family secrets (part 2)" by Chris Heath, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that Ive had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitzs play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

  Bob Saget

  New York, Play, Three

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• My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

  Bryan Cranston

  Country, Thinking, Political

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• I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Voice, People, Inspire

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• If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Space

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• For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Blessed, Hunger Poverty, Despair

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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• Health care is a right, not a privilege.

  Edward Kennedy

  Care, Politics, Health Care

  "Highlights from Obama's health care summit". www.cnn.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day as did the lepers their newfound health, without a word of thanks. We would thank the person who gives us a seat in the bus, the person who offers a ride, the friend who picks up the check after dinner, the person who does the baby-sitting, or the boy who cuts our lawn, but do we express gratitude to Him who gives us all?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Baby, Gratitude, Cutting

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• Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ of assistance, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege.

  James Otis

  Men, Law, House

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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• It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Should Have, Promise, Generations

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• If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Prayer, Creative, Needs

  Hannah Hurnard (2012). “Mountains of Spices”, p.251, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

  Amy Poehler

  People, Wish, Alive

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, Should Have, Progress

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

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• And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

  Philippe Perrin

  Europe, Space, Able

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• I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

  Henry Adams

  Government, Giving, Office

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• We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

  Silvan Shalom

  Israel, Order, Safety

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• We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

  Upton Sinclair

  Media, Practice, America

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.236, Open Road Media

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• It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Journey, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Thoreau”, p.21, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

  Jodi Rell

  Faith, Office, Citizens

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• Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

  Nahum Tate

  Friendship, Blessing, Greatness

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