Privilege - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids. — Matt Damon

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.' — Ashley Wagner

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. — Anne Sullivan

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone. — Susan Powter

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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