442 Quotes About Privilege

To know God`s laws and abide by them is a privilege.

In the American media, white people debate whether race matters, rich people debate whether poverty matters, and men debate whether gender matters. People for whom these problems must matter -- for they structure the limitations of their lives -- are locked out of the discussion.

People of color challenge racism everyday; we’ve never had a choice. Yet since we did not build, and fortify for centuries, a system of white supremacy as American as the Constitution, and as old as Plymouth Rock, we alone cannot be expected to undo it.That, white people, is on you — and your privilege.

Affirmative action is the giving, to some people, of a fair disadvantage.

There are still people in the United States who believe they are more privileged than others. This may be because of their color, politics, national origin or economic and cultural status. This is the root of many of our national problems and the reason that we should consider carefully who the next president of our country should be!

She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.