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

Privilege, Awareness, Injustice, Empathy

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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."

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"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

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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

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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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"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."

Jonathan Carroll, American Author

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

DaShanne Stokes, American Author

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"Yousef had been lighthearted during his questions, but there was something very serious and sad under his smile, and Alan knew what it was. It was the knowledge that there would be no fighting, and there would be no struggle, no stand taken, and that the two of them, because they were not lacking materially, because despite injustices in their countries they were the recipients of preposterous bounty, would likely do nothing. They were content, they had won. The fighting would be done by others, elsewhere."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

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

Thomas Starr King, American Clergyman

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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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"The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins."

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"Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned."

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"An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people."

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"Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress."

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"Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?"

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"If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say."

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"Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage."

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"There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate."

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"Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power."

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"Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live."

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