#privilege

In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits. ↗

— Eric Liu

#also #catalog #convey #duties #end

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#america #carry #celebration #color #does

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#believed #discipline #doing #education #get

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#am #andrews #around #building #could

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! ↗

— David O. McKay

#gift #let us #love #power #privilege

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#course #easily #free #free men #gives

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#celebrity #i #i am #privileged #very

It is an honor and a privilege that I am to be the sponsor of the USS Michael Murphy. ↗

— Maureen Murphy

#honor #i #i am #michael #murphy

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#become #great #man #member #privilege