442 Quotes About Privilege

What shall I do to be forever know,And make the Age to come my own?I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,Unless you write my Elegy;Whilst others great by being born are grown,Their Mothers Labour, not their own.In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,The weight of that mounts this so high.These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright; Brought forth with their own fire and light.If I, her vulgar stone for either look,Out of my self it must be strook.

What shall I do to be forever known,And make the Age to come my own?I shall like Beasts or Common People dy,Unless you write my Elegy;Whilst others great by being born are grown,Their Mothers Labour, not their own.In this scale Gold, in th' other Fame does ly,The weight of that mounts this so high.These men are Fortunes Jewels, moulded bright;Brought forth with their own fire and light.If I, her vulgar stone for either look,Out of my self it must be strook.

You've had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can't stand on your own legs?

Intersectionality and the recognition and confrontation of our privilege, can make us better people with better lives.

No woman (or man) becomes a corporate manager, gets tenure at a university, or is elected to public office by showing their capacity for cooperation, sharing, emotional sensitivity, and nurturing.

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Maleness has functioned in our race much like whiteness has in the larger culture: its privileges have been rendered normal, its perspectives natural, its biases neutral, its ideas superior, its anger wholly justifiable, and its way of being the gift of God to the universe.

Stillness is a privilege.

Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you still have to argue it point-by-point. Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That's libertarians for you--anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.