In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." —F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby More about this quote Tags: empathy privilege advantage advice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the Earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. —Eugene Debs More about this quote Tags: politics empathy commonality privilege kinship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. —Charles Kuralt More about this quote Tags: friendship privilege family wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: privilege rights doing right Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. —Charles Kuralt More about this quote Tags: love privilege family wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. —Hesketh Pearson More about this quote Tags: privilege reading learning pride quotation misquotation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
May we remember, as we log on, that half the world's people have never used a telephone, and recall, as we chatter, that most of those around us have no chance to speak or move as they choose. May we recall that more than half a million beings live without food, and that as many children live amidst poverty and war. —Pico Iyer More about this quote Tags: technology privilege gratitude memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the vanguard of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. —John B. Gough More about this quote Tags: history privilege morality suffering nobility heroes conflict minority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: privilege wealth class golf cloths Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was meant to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. —Peggy McIntosh More about this quote Tags: privilege whiteness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man shows a narrowness of mind and becomes unworthy of his humanity by refusing any privilege to his fellow man because he is colored. Every prejudice entertained, every breach of justice and charity against a fellow-citizen because of color is a stain flung upon the banner of our liberty that floats over us. —John Ireland (bishop) More about this quote Tags: justice humanity privilege prejudice racism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email