#privilege

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#actor #anything #being #choose #had

I was brought up in a world of privilege. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#i #privilege #up #world

In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#both #communities #congressional #congressional district #district

Never having experienced inequality, therefore, the majority of straight white men will be absolutely oblivious to their own advantages – not because they must necessarily be insensitive, sexist, racist, homophobic or unaware of the principles of equality; but because they have been told, over and over again, that there is no inequality left for them – or anyone else – to experience – and everything they have experienced up to that point will only have proved them right. Let the impact of that sink in for a moment. By teaching children and teenagers that equality already exists, we are actively blinding the group that most benefits from inequality – straight white men – to the prospect that it doesn’t. Privilege to them feels indistinguishable from equality, because they’ve been raised to believe that this is how the world behaves for everyone. And because the majority of our popular culture is straight-white-male-dominated, stories that should be windows into empathy for other, less privileged experiences have instead become mirrors, reflecting back at them the one thing they already know: that their lives both are important and free from discrimination. And this hurts men. It hurts them by making them unconsciously perpetrate biases they’ve been actively taught to despise. It hurts them by making them complicit in the distress of others. It hurts them by shoehorning them into a restrictive definition masculinity from which any and all deviation is harshly punished. It hurts them by saying they will always be inferior parents and caregivers, that they must always be active and aggressive even when they long for passivity and quietude, that they must enjoy certain things like sports and beer and cars or else be deemed morally suspect. It hurts them through a process of indoctrination so subtle and pervasive that they never even knew it was happening , and when you’ve been raised to hate inequality, discovering that you’ve actually been its primary beneficiary is horrifying – like learning that the family fortune comes from blood money. Blog post 4/12/2012: Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men ↗

— Foz Meadows

#equality #inequality #men #privilege #equality

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#advocacy #being #bigger #certainly #difference

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#greatest #privilege #right

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#must #out #people #poor #poor people

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life. ↗

— Helen Garner

#else #into #life #privilege #see

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege. ↗

— David Geffen

#live #privilege #states #united #united states

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#courts #found #here #needs #our