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Privilege Quotes


"Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


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