Privilege Quotes - Page 2

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply. The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.