Privilege Quotes - Page 8

• Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

  Tony La Russa

  Basketball, Opportunity, Over You

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• 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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• 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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• Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio Alger were alive today, heʼd want to be just like Dr. Palmisano, one of the true Renaissance men Iʼve had the privilege and pleasure of knowing! On Leadership continues in his tradition of excellence.

  Paul Galanti

  Country, Men, Knowing

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• Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Love, Life, Family

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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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• I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech

  Loretta Swit

  Thinking, Speech, Should

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• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Confidence, Children

  "Sermons".

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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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• It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

  Charles Tupper

  Taken, Rights, Catholic

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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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• The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Men

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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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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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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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• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

  Hannah Arendt

  Freedom, Taken, Progress

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

  Robin Morgan

  Running, Giving Up, Men

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Risk, Investing

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Teacher, My Birthday, Would Be

  "How to be a Good Teacher". Book by Rupal Jain, p. 138, 2013.

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• Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Gratitude, Work, Opportunity

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Gratitude, Art, Healing

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• Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys.

  William George Jordan

  Love, Responsibility, Joy

  "The kingship of self-control".

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• I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

  Rose George

  Thinking, People, Toilets

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