Quotes about Privileges
The greatest threat to kingdom privileges and benefits is an independent spirit.
- Myles Munroe
The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State.
- Ulysses S. Grant
Jesus extended the privileges of God's chosen family to the whole world, regardless of race or nation. Thus an obscure Jewish sect became a new global faith, Christianity, open to all.
- Philip Yancey
Everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. - as spoken by Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame Coach
- Lou Holtz
Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man. Because all Americans just must have the right to vote. And we are going to give them that right. All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race. And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession?
- John Henry Newman
The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
- Charles Dickens
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
- Tony Campolo
We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Samuel Johnson
Whatever power and privileges Jesus' followers possess are gifts to be held loosely and wielded for the care and benefit of others...
- Carolyn Custis James
An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense.
- Victor Hugo