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Newspapers of the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from special privilege and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch the human mind. These
— Napoleon Hill
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
— Thomas Jefferson
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge
Golf is typical capitalist lunacy
— George Bernard Shaw
When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.
— Isabel Allende
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
— Shirley Chisholm
There is a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.
— Napoleon Hill
This privilege of stimulating your mind with suggestions and thoughts of your own choosing is your prerogative power that Divine Providence gave you, and if you will exercise this holy right there is nothing within the bounds of reason that you cannot attain.
— Napoleon Hill
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
— Toni Morrison
There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.
— Toni Morrison
Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Privilege and prosperity come with responsiblity.
— Carolyn Custis James