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Quotes about Privilege

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.
— Andrew Jackson
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.
— Abhijit Banerjee
They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.
— Lil Yachty
We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.
— Shiv Nadar
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
— Phillips Brooks
Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.
— AW Pink
Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.
— Priscilla Shirer
I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.
— Zachary Taylor
Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement.
— Ravi Zacharias
To deny the Christian the privilege of propagation is to propagate him or her the fundamental beliefs of another religion.
— Ravi Zacharias
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— Ravi Zacharias