Privilege Quotes

“The price of privilege is eternal vigilance.”
― auberon waugh

“The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.”
― Hanne Blank, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

“In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the child of his mother and father, it seemed like something that would never change. Yet look how easily he had lost that rank and privilege! A person's fortune could turn at any time.”
― Nahoko Uehashi, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

“I get it, you know. I'm operating on privilege too. It may be a number of notches down from yours but it's every bit as unearned. I think the trick is to never forget it.”
― Sabrina Vourvoulias