#privilege

Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#education

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges. ↗

— James Baldwin

#privilege #change

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do. ↗

— David Beckham

#complain #consider #doing #i #i do

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?" ↗

— Annette Bening

#cameos #cannot #doing #fact #films

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#came #clearly #concerned #experienced #feminist

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am. ↗

— Kate Bush

#felt #i #i am #last #life

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#call #called #come #democracy #duty

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#feel #how #i #i am #i feel

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#brings #destroy #fascism #fights #government

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ↗

— Voltaire

#others #privilege #think #too #yourselves