442 Quotes About Privilege

Expressions of kindness in times of social change and public protest should focus on those who are seeking justice and liberation and not on the ones whose privileged worlds are being disrupted by the leveling of a social playing field or a correction in disparities of access, power, or authority.

Royal events are moments when some take a break from condemning average people for displaying their “privilege” to celebrate a blatant display of international wealth and position.

You can do that when you’re rich and famous. You can decide that wealth and renown are worthless when you have them.

The combination of outward privilege and emotional invisibility is one of the most hurtful and confusing ways to live. Nothing appears to be wrong and yet every day is a torturous maze of unreflected chaotic emotional upheaval, ameliorated only be regular descents into dorsal numbness.

The hierarchy of most workplaces in America looks very much like climbing high mountains—the higher you get, the whiter the scenery becomes.

One cannot be free, never, not ever, in an unfree world, and in the course of redefining family, church, power relations, all the institutions which inhabit and order our lives, there is no way to hold onto privilege and comfort. To attempt to do so is destructive, criminal, and intolerable.

It is my hope that despite the gravity of the trials, we will never forget that the privilege to live life always offsets the difficulties involved in the living of it. This is the essence of thanksgiving.

Power, privilege and prosperity comes from God. That is why we have to thank Him for His presence in our lives.

Despite the fact that life owes us nothing, it gifts us everything. And if such selflessness were the hallmark of our lives, we would handily transform everyone’s life.