#privilege

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#equal opportunity #flourish #give #must #opportunity

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color. ↗

— Danny Glover

#affecting #also #color #community #important

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#conduct #everyone #highest #highest standards #met

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#been #colored #denied #education #feel

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it? ↗

— Larry Hagman

#acting #airs #always #annoys #coming

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#believe #bless #desire #enjoyed #ever

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#away #barbarous #criminal #criminal justice #english-speaking

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom