Privilege Quotes

“Here's the truth. If you have a choice between auditioning for a great role over a bad role, you are privileged. That means not only do you have a top agent who can get you in, you are at a level that you would be considered for it. Our profession at any given time has a 95 percent unemployment rate. Only 1 percent of actors are famous, and we won't get into defining famous. The 0.04 percent are the stories you read about in the media. 'Being picky,' 'dropping agents,' making far less than male counterparts. Never having any regrets in terms of roles they've taken. Yada, yada, yada.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“Even if you were were given the privilege to live twice, you would never repeat the same day twice. And if you are wise, you will only need to be told that once.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Privilege is simply the target the progressive left paints on the back of those whose power they want.”
― Os Guinness, The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom

“Father said he wasn’t worried. He said Americans are like this, brittle with privilege. Sometimes anger robs them of their senses and they make bad decisions, but in a way this was really just another testament to American greatness—how adept the United States was at surviving its endless self-inflicted wounds. We live in a good country, he said, and it will be good again.”
― Omar El Akkad, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

“He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him.”
― Emma Cline, The Guest

“The entire world is Afghanistan, you never felt it because either you are white or privileged.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Betapa menyedihkan, terlahir sebagai seseorang dengan privilese. Sekeras apa pun berperang, ia seakan-akan tidak pernah luka. Seluruh penghargaan atas perjuangannya, lalu dikredit pada privilese.”
― Cut Vivia Talitha, Confidence in You

“There is no difference between a barking dog with golden platter and barking activist with a silver spoon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“She was awed by the privilege. She accepted the disciplines.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World

“The world over, marriage is considered a form of companionship and a partnership where both parties may mutually agree to share the rights and responsibilities equally. However, in India, the male-dominated society incorrectly considers marriage as a privilege and an entitlement of men.”
― Shalu Nigam

“Propaganda is one of the most grievous ways by which we abuse the majesty of words and disregard the privilege that we have to use them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I will first seek out the truth in the purest form that I am able to find it. And then I will embrace the immense privilege that I have been granted to weave words into syntax in order to deliver that truth into the hearts of those who thirst for words of truth woven into a syntax that digs wells.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your privilege is something you don't often think about. It's often invisible to you until you take a moment to gain some insight and awareness into your whole self.”
― Tiffany Jewell, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

“Catching a fish is always secondary to the privilege of being able to put a line in the water.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People in a majority or socially supported position, no matter how well-meaning, are often so protected in their assumptions about the world that they do not even know they are making assumptions.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“What in heaven’s name do you mean?’

“=Not the name of heaven. Just the place you come from.=

“‘You don’t know anything about the place I come from.’

“=It is true I don’t know the place. But I know a great deal about the place now, after learning to know you. I know what kind of stories—not the stories themselves, mind you, but the kind of stories—they tell their children. I know what the children are led to expect from the world. Fair treatment. A happy life. Even that question you ask comes out of the mountains.=

“‘Is there anything wrong with that? You make it look stupid.’

“=There is nothing wrong, and there is something wrong. There is nothing wrong with making a place where children can be safe. I can hardly imagine it myself, but it sits on the edge of my vision like a small sun. It’s a blinding glimpse of something. Safety. So very odd. And I suppose there’s nothing wrong with a modicum of safety, though I think my way one at least learns how to react quickly. But there is something wrong in the kind of complacency…= his sign is complicated: a cat after cream, a fat despot =…which lets you think you have a right to a happy life just because you can think of the idea.=

“‘I don’t agree with you. Everyone should be able to be complacent in that way!’ As she speaks she illustrates the way by repeating the cat-with-cream sign. ‘But that other, that arrogance, I don’t think we are arrogant, in the mountains, like that—do you?’

“=Arrogant? I don’t know. Arrogant? A curious word. The arrogance of privilege. You had safety. That’s a privilege.=”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine

“We none of us hear all we might.”
― Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow

“Ocean didn’t dissect his own mind. He never agonized over his actions and he was never suspicious of people. He never even seemed to experience embarrassment the way that I did. His mind seemed, to me, like an extremely peaceful place.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“To know and experience true love is the greatest of all privileges.”
― Troy Hadeed, My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different

“A profound spoken truth from one set of lips can be an evasion of accountability from another.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“The ground under the oak tree was littered with hundreds of acorns. And it dawned on me that I was standing in the forest of tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“They laugh at feminism from the comfort of privilege, blind to the chains it seeks to break.”
― Anubha Saxena

“I’ve come to understand that in this world, there are those who, in their untouchable privilege, believe that they’re entitled to a perfect life, and the perfect life they get is because they’re so deserving, so good, and true. Their crippled souls are blinded by a naivety that can only understand their life, their pain, their truth. These are the ones who look at us—the mermaids, the fairies, the unicorns—and see only that we don’t fit into their little box of what beauty and truth are. They make token gestures of kindness that are not about what we need, but about what they need to look good in their own eyes, and in the eyes of the world they have moulded to their shallow, selfish limits, leaving us—the magical, the different, the dreamers—feeling less than them; feeling unheard, unseen, and unloved.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“He who has choices has resources. And the life needs of some twentysomething actor are not the life needs of everyone. Health insurance, mortgage, children are not the top priority of most twentysomethings. Yet the people who are aspiring to be actors and have no knowledge as to a way in listen to the testimonies of the privileged. The ones who were extremely talented, but also extraordinarily lucky. Luck is an elusive monster who chooses when to come out of its cave to strike and who will be its recipient. It's a business of deprivation.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“When others see us for who we truly are and love us still, we discover the purest form of happiness. Life's supreme bliss lies in being loved unconditionally — a blessed privilege that only a few ever truly experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Das größte Privileg - und das bezieht sich auf alle Diskriminierungsformen - ist es, sich nicht mit der Thematik beschäftigen zu müssen, da man selbst (scheinbar) nicht betroffen ist. (S. 47)”
― Olaolu Fajembola, Tebogo Nimindé-Dundadengar

“Das größte Privileg - und das bezieht sich auf alle Diskriminierungsformen - ist es, sich nicht mit der Thematik beschäftigen zu müssen, da man selbst (scheinbar) nicht betroffen ist. (S. 47)”
― Tebogo Nimindé-Dundadengar, Mit Kindern über Diskriminierungen sprechen

“Ein Zeichen von Privilegiertheit ist es, über schlimme Realitäten oder schmerzhafte geschichtliche Epochen nicht sprechen zu müssen. (S. 148)”
― Tebogo Nimindé-Dundadengar, Mit Kindern über Diskriminierungen sprechen

“Privilegiertheit ist oft mit Ignoranz, Inkompetenz und Empathielosigkeit gegenüber der Lebensrealität von Diskriminierten verbunden. (S. 266)”
― Tebogo Nimindé-Dundadengar, Mit Kindern über Diskriminierungen sprechen

“My students' families did not allow them to be children a second longer than necessary, and not when they were supposed to be getting educated on their parents' considerable hordes of dimes. Public school teens could wander through their empty hours to find passions. My children were not teenagers but burgeoning scions with corner offices awaiting them.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex