442 Quotes About Privilege

Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money.

I've worked eleven years without a break, till a fire stopped me, and gave me a chance of studying. I can feel myself expanding, evolving. I defy even Starvation to stop me from finding out all I desire to know. And when I've got to know all I can, I shall pass it on to others.

It’s not a contest.’ ‘Yes it is. You just can’t see it because you’ve always been the winner

When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.

It’s troubling to see how privilege accumulates over generations, particularly white privilege in the US, and, when people reach a certain level of safety, to see how they pull the ladder up after themselves.

People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

You aren't rich if you have to be careful.

Inviting someone to work for pay is a sacred privilege and a trust. It must be regarded a high honor to be able to give another person work, and neither employer nor employee should abuse this relationship

This backlash against ‘precious snowflakes’ exposes a key foundation of the current rightward shift: from a position of privilege, equality can feel like oppression.