Privilege Quotes - Page 7

• Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

  Colin Ward

  Powerful, States, Protect

  Colin Ward (2004). “Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . . . . Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet

  Noel Ignatiev

  Race, White, Feet

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• Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

  Billie Jean King

  Champion, Pressure

  Daily Express, October 29, 2008.

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• I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Trying, Lucky, World

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• This club is steeped in history and I feel privileged to have become a part of that ... An immense thank you to Sir Alex Ferguson for making it all possible, for giving me the privilege to be a captain, to be inspired by the legend of Manchester United and to understand that nobody is bigger than the club.

  Patrice Evra

  Giving, Alex, Ferguson

  "Patrice Evra writes open letter to Manchester United fans following his move to Juventus" by Simon Austin, www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2014.

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• It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she should have no privileges except those received through her son. It seems illogical that the God Principle of the Universe, in its infinite wisdom, should endanger the existence of the Race by making the Mother of it the weak, cringing underling of her husband.

  Hilton Hotema

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Hilton Hotema (1998). “Secret of Regeneration”, p.276, Health Research Books

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• My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

  Miranda Hart

  Hello, Dear, Reader

  "he battle of the celebrity memoirs" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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• The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Economic, Relation

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.182, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  Charles Tupper

  Country, Taken, Rights

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

  Isabella Beeton

  Leadership, Civilization, Progress

  Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.363, Oxford University Press

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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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  A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

  Betty Friedan

  Girl, Sex, Women

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

  Betty Buckley

  Thinking, Class, White

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• Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I have little kids who are hard to be away from sometimes when school's going back and there are tons of things that you're missing. But you know, there's that great Billie Jean King expression: "Pressure is a privilege." We can all deal.

  Cynthia Leive

  Fashion, Kings, School

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• I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We should labor to get the Spirit of God. It is our right, our privilege, and our duty to call upon the Lord, that the vision of our mind may be opened, so that we may see and understand the day and age in which we are living. It is your privilege, and mine too, to know the mind and will of the Lord concerning our duties, and if we fail to seek after this, we neglect to magnify our calling.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Life, Men, Should Have

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• The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

  Edward Gibbon

  Math, Epic, Age

  Edward Gibbon (1862). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.401

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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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