It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.
Kate BornsteinTags: gender privilege transgender gender-identity
Privilege is driving a smooth road and not even knowing it.
AmpersandTags: privilege white-privilege ampersand
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
Benedict CumberbatchTags: work ambition opportunity privilege acting actor choose
...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.
The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
Tags: willful-ignorance privilege racism race-relations american-culture black-and-white black-history white-privilege hypocricy trayvon-martin george-zimmerman
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
Robert B. ReichTags: wealth class government privilege poor middle-class upper-class
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
Brené BrownTags: parenting privilege gratitude entitlement gifts-of-imperfect-parenting
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: empathy oppression civil-rights privilege social-justice racism nonviolence tension conflict-resolution oppressors nonviolent-conflict-resolution white-privilege confronting-privilege
Privilege: the belief that because a dog has been carefully trained not to bite YOUR ass, that is has no teeth.
Arinn DemboTags: humor privilege arinn-dembo
After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.
Terry PratchettTags: equality justice law privilege crime rights
The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness.
Criss JamiTags: equality inequality respect privilege entitlement accomplished disrespect lofty irrespectiveness
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