Privileged Quotes - Page 15

• Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

  Alan Keyes

  Abortion, Black, Mind

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Renew America rally at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. March 8, 2000.

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• Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Causes, Determined, Injustice

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

  Wole Soyinka

  Minorities, Definitions, Accepting

  Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo (2001). “Conversations with Wole Soyinka”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group of people in the world, the creditor-rentier class of the First World and their junior partners in the Third.

  Doug Henwood

  Class, People, Groups

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• I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

  Tony Curtis

  Lucky, Feels, Knows

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• Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Employment, Politics

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• It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Nice, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.

  George H. Smith

  Commitment, Burden Of Proof, Egalitarianism

  George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books

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• Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

  Tom Morello

  Music Is, Globes, Position

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Ambition, Exercise

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

  Albert Einstein

  Long Ago, Class, People

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• Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Doe, Levels, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  Paddy Considine

  Giving Up, Thinking, Trying

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• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sea, Soul

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• As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Body, Gout

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.132

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• The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

  Emma Goldman

  Military, Class, America

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.

  Luca Parmitano

  Beautiful, Beach, Memories

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• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Opportunity, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Years, Crafts

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• We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Views, Special, Kind

  "People say I'm strident" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

  Ben Shapiro

  Country, Generations, Empty

  Ben Shapiro (2013). “Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future”, p.13, Regnery Publishing

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• Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Yale, Use

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• Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

  Andy Stanley

  Thinking, Generosity, Effort

  "Atlanta Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley 'Uncomfortably Bold' on Confronting Christians About Wealth, Generosity". Interview with Ruth Malhotra, www.christianpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

  Vernon Lee

  Poetry, Mind, Depth

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