Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now. Those who have inherited rich blood can use that richness in building greatness in themselves, but those who have not the privilege of such inheritance need not be discouraged. They can create their own rich blood and make it as rich as they like.
Christian D. LarsonTags: success greatness privilege blood inheritance richness forefathers inherited
She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English; it was obvious to her that the two languages did not carry equal weight.
Héctor TobarTags: language privilege spanish english
If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.
Laura SchroffThere is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.
Bruno BauerTags: privilege religious-privilege
You've had it the easiest. What good is all your privilege, you soft, spoiled thing, if you can't stand on your own legs?
Maggie StiefvaterTags: independence privilege gansey
Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were just better, you had to take their word. But then federal investigators came along and pried open those top-secret files. The Harvard guys were lying.
This past fall, after two years of study, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that, far from being more qualified or equally qualified, the average admitted legacy at Harvard between 1981 and 1988 was significantly LESS qualified than the average admitted nonlegacy. Examining admissions office ratings on academics, extracurriculars, personal qualities, recommendations, and other categories, the OCR concluded that "with the exception of the athletic rating, [admitted] nonlegacies scored better than legacies in ALL areas of comparison."
In his recent book, "Preferential Policies", Thomas Sowell argues that doling out special treatment encourages lackluster performance by the favored and resentment from the spurned. His far-ranging study flits from Malaysia to South Africa to American college campuses. Legacies don't merit a word.
Tags: class privilege social-science affirmative-action
He’s [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day’s work in his life.
Bob DoleTags: privilege elite upper-class george-herbert-walker-bush
That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.
Terry PratchettTags: privilege
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