Privilege - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to contribute to someone's else oppression. It means that you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others. — Luvvie Ajayi

that's what privilege is - the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person. — Tom Perrotta Mrs. Fletcher

He saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. — Edith Wharton The Age of...

It did not occur to any of them that their decision was born of a colossal sense of entitlement, this notion that they could just step away from yesterday and start tomorrow as if it wasn't a part of...

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

If you are reading this essay, you have some kind of privilege.

We need to get to a place where we discuss privilege by way of observation and acknowledgment rather than accusation. We need to be able to argue beyond the threat of privilege. We need to stop...

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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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