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Tag Name "Privilege" (967)

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Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
Brandi Carlile
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Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.
Russell Kirk
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Privilege does not operate without silence.
Junot Diaz
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Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.
Terry Pratchett
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Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.
Ani DiFranco
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Privilege is invisible to those who have it.
Michael Kimmel
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Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
Chinua Achebe
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Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.
Clarence Page
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Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are it's about the situation they're in.
Harry Shearer
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Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
Walker Evans
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Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.
John F. Kennedy
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Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.
David Gaider
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Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Hesketh Pearson
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Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
Grenville Kleiser
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If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn learning appears to be over.
Fred D'Aguiar
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore A privilege I think.
Emily Dickinson
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Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel
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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunter Grass
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It is the business of the very few to be independent it is a privilege of the strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
Eric Hoffer
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The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
H. L. Mencken
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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