442 Quotes About Privilege

Privilege is the right to remain silent when others can’t.

If I want to know how I'd have shown up in the last civil rights era, I have to ask myself: How am I showing up today, in this civil rights era?

Privilege lies in obliviousness. (White privilege, for instance, involves being able to reliably forget that race matters.)

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change.

One of the clearest indications of privilege is the freedom to opt out.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.

Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.

When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your house’s glorious destiny, you take such things for granted. You’re born assuming that someone else is paying the cost of your life. It’s just the way things are. What happens during annexation—it’s a difference of degree, not a difference of kind.