42 Quotes About Privileges

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

Life doesn’t owe me. However, it liberally gifts me.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

I intend to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods(...)When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all mankind.

What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people spew racist abuse at the rest of their ancestry? What does it signify when a society rewards them for this type of behavior?

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