442 Quotes About Privilege

  • Author Jacqueline Koyanagi
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    Treatments worked well enough for us to get by. Most people lived into old age, but the medication, like everything else, has never been free. Life was a privilege, not a right, apparently. Something you had to struggle for when you were unlucky enough to be born at the intersection of poverty and bad genes.

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  • Author Sabrina Vourvoulias
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    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.

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  • Author Marie Bregendahl
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    Ah yes—could it really be said that people who had no hope in their hearts were alive?Sina thought not.Well, of course they ‘jogged along,’ as she expressed it; they could do that all right; but actually what Sina called life—that she did not think was to be found in those who had nothing to hope for.This was Clever Sina’s opinion on the subject.

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