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“How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them? The irony of the situation is that if we allow Sptizer’s deep pockets to buy his way back into our homes and hearts, then it’s not young women he hired who are whores, it’s the people of New York.”

New York Privilege Politicians Scandal White Privilege Sex Work Male Privilege Class Privilege

Author:Valerie Baber

“I know what he was like,’ said Sebastian. McCay’s daughter made a harsh, scoffing sound in her throat. ‘Do you? Ashworth came close to ruining us. He did it as deliberately and casually as a normal person might step on a bug. Men like him, they think their wealth and lineage give them the right to do whatever they please to anyone weaker or poorer than they are. And you know why they think that way? Because it’s true — they always get away with it. Always. No one stops them. No one dares to stop them. And there’s no real way for those they harm to fight back.”

Injustice Class Privilege

Book:Who Slays the Wicked

Source: Who Slays the Wicked

“To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.”

Way Class Ordinary Privilege Racist Usual Polite Sexist Class Privilege

Book:How to Suppress Women's Writing

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

“We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He's buffered from being a criminal.”

Ifs Self States Kids Beautiful Young Rooms Class Drug Police Privilege Criminals Horrible Destructive Rebel Rebellious Cds Self Destructive Jeopardy Nowhere To Go Class Privilege

Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

“If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to end the injustice that grants that privilege in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Ends Use White Class Protect Injustice Privilege Obligation Grants Protect You White Privilege Class Privilege

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”

Ideas Done Class Benefits Privilege Absurd Tennis Owners Prize Medal No Money Trophies Olympic Medals Yossarian Class Privilege

Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“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.”

Thinking White Class Middle Subjects Movement Racism Concerned Privilege Feminist Middle Class Racist Feminist Movement Class Privilege

Author:Betty Buckley

“Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.”

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“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.”

Mind States Feelings Life Is Individual Causes Class Despair Mass Privilege Productions Exception Melancholy Phenomenon State Of Mind Quota Class Privilege

Author:Gunter Grass