Famous quotes containing the word privilege:
“Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle. The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household mattersfrom what to do with the crumbs to the grocers telephone numbera sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him better than the reputation for having a violent temper.”
—Crystal Eastman (18811928)
“There is one privilege well never lose; currently its called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is in fact self-evident.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
“... there are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)