Privileges Quotes

“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.”
― Terry Pratchett

“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.”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

“Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not part of who i am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.”
― luvvie ajayi , I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line. Acknowledging them does not mean you are admitting to doing something to contribute to someone's else oppression. It means that you recognize that some part of your identity puts you in a better position than others.”
― luvvie ajayi

“The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Life doesn’t owe me. However, it liberally gifts me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Privileges exist to be exploited.
The universe provides cheat codes so they can be used. He unlocked the cheat codes when everyone called him a war hero.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“John Locke and Thomas Jefferson both were great men in politics; however, they both were wrong in their beliefs of what rights men should have. Both men left out one of the most important rights than all humans should have and that right is 'equality'.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“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.”
― Pauli Murray

“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?”
― Daniel Greenfield

“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“I wonder how different life would be if the only thing we demanded of it was the opportunity to give back to it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But they {journalists} are still viewed as a rather privileged category. True, they no longer can ride buses free or go to the movies for free as was the case in Mussolini’s day. But they can still get into most museums or exhibitions without paying. If you’re a smooth operator you can get complimentary tickets for shows or the opera. Until recently, you could get a 30% discount on all domestic flights (now it’s 15%). And if you have trouble with any of your utilities,the utility company’s press office will be glad to give you a have in working things out. In addition, since many Italian journalists have a different sense of what constitutes a conflict of interest from what we do in the United States, they often accept any manner of gifts or paid vacations from companies they regularly cover.”
― Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and Loving) in the Eternal City

“John Locke and Thomas Jefferson both were great men in politics; however, they both were wrong in their beliefs of what rights men should have. Both men left out one of the most important rights that all humans should have and that right is 'equality'.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“At the point that I have confused ‘rights’ with ‘privileges,’ I will have lost both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every friendship has its own privileges.”
― John Arthur

“What I’ve taken for granted may well be the very privileges that will be taken from me unless I take a very different view of them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When fundamental rights depend on someone's whim, you really have no rights, only privileges that may be withdrawn at any minute.”
― John Taylor Gatto, A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

“Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“In terms of pure and humble objective morality, a right just feels right to have; however a privilege is, in a way, sort of in the way, and almost feels wrong to have (by principle that if you abuse it, you lose it).”
― Criss Jami