"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."

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"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."

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"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."

Betty Buckley, American Actress

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"Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted."

DaShanne Stokes, American Author

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"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops " I mean Pride of the Blue Devils.In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in CancAon during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

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"What a privilege it is to be an American!"

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"You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are."

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"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Privilege, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Political correctness' is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."

DaShanne Stokes, American Author

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"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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