442 Quotes About Privilege

Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.

Favor is a special status or privilege that could granted to someone, You can call it supernatural fragrance that attracts unsolicited help.

How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s deep pockets to buy his way back into our homes and hearts, then it’s not young women he hired who are whores, it’s the people of New York.

So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person?

We have a deep interest in denying the forms of oppression which benefit us.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

To be loved, accepted, supported, and included for exactly who you are, with no expectation of change? I think it’s the best privilege there is.

The world is full of conundrums that will tax your skills. Do you presume that you will always get to choose the ones that best suit your strengths?

White males can't win these days - if they have something, they're "privileged" and if they want something, they're displaying "entitlement.