Quotes of: Privilege Keyword

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

Mary Stuart Masterson

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Albert Bushnell Hart

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

David Bailey

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

C.S. Lewis

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Bob Geldof

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

Bill Toomey

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

BeBe Winans

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Henry James Sumner Maine

It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

Dalton McGuinty

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Nicole Krauss

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

Ethel Waters

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

Ashley Wagner

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

Michael Fassbender

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

Roger Goodell

I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

Tulsi Gabbard

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

Tommy Lee Jones

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not ...

1984

Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug ...

Race Traitor

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of ...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to eit...

Tim Wise

There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.

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