Quotes about Privilege

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

True fasting is not just depriving ourselves of privilege but als osharing sacrificially tob ring an end to the cycles of inequality, an end to creation's groaning and the groaning of hungry bellies.

Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals? If so, do we really believe that our notions of self-government and individual freedom, equality of opportunity and equality before the law, apply to everybody? Or are we instead committed, in practice if not in statute, to reserving those things for a privileged few?

When you get rid of the estate tax," he said, "you're basically handing over command of the country's resources to people who didn't earn it. It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.

At age five I raised my good left hand in Sunday school and used a month's ration of words to point out this problem to Miss Betty Nagy. Getting born within earshot of a preacher, I reasoned, is entirely up to chance. Would Our Lord be such a hit-or-miss kind of Saviour as that? Would he really condemn some children to eternal suffering just for the accident of a heathen birth, and reward others for a privilege they did nothing to earn?

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Philippians understood very well Paul's charge about being citizens of another world. Paul spoke, not about going to heaven some day, but about living as citizens of heaven today…specifically from heaven toward earth.3 We have the privilege of representing heaven in this world, so that we might bring a manifestation of heaven to this world.

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.