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“History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to dig deep and deconstruct their seat of privilege. Because this is an emergency. We're in threat of losing our homes, the future of our future generations, and the biological paradise that we're apart of. It's in the interest of all people that we lean on the feminine archetype in our movement forward.”

People Men Has Beens Home Body Interest Generations Movement Losing Female Asking Threat Males Privilege Paradise Seats Feminine Our Future Emergencies Future Generation Archetype Dig Deep

Author:Antony Hegarty

“You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.”

Ifs Knows Way Reason Privilege Guilty Telling The Truth Amendments Swear Fifth Prosecutor Perjury Fifth Amendment

Author:Richard Ben-Veniste

“I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.”

People Thinking Want Shows Able Privilege

Author:Bill Burr

“Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.”

World Doe Ocean Distance Privilege Rely World Is Small

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.”

People Hard Sin Blessing Devil All Things Privilege Guides Plenty Rulers Providence

Author:David Livingstone

“If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?”

Ifs Thinking Men Promise Female Lifetime Privilege Veils His Smile

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.”

“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

“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.”

“It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.”

States House Given United United States Rights Constitution Privilege Resolution Constitution Of The United States

Author:Bob Latta

“Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.”

People World Government Constitution Privilege Documents

Author:Ronald Reagan

“You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!”

Years Accepting Four Effects Privilege Four Years Programmers Robbers Reptiles Leeches

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.”

States Interest Media Privilege Debate Corporate Discussion Analysis Supportive Framing

Book:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

“Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.”

Looks Facts Privilege Permission

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.”

Thinking White Taught Males Privilege White Privilege Male Privilege

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.”

Vision Youth Privilege Charming Constructs Castles In The Air

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Should States Rights Society Conditions Position Demand Bases Fundamentals Democratic Privilege Contrary Inequality Consistent Democratic Rights

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

“What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.”

Thinking Moments Belief Special Youth Regret Privilege Firm Present Moment Looking Forward Possessing Firm Beliefs

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.”

Results Creatures Disease Privilege Inequality Vicious

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!”

Life Should Believe Humans May Made Moments Born Dying Privilege Edges Pleasant March Permission Convenient Puppets Precipice Life On The Edge

Author:Kate Langley Bosher

“Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.”

Love May Two Causes Poet Sorrow Privilege Contemporary Absolutely Nothing

Author:Honore de Balzac

“To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.”

Thinking Mind Humans Human Beings Empty Prejudice Privilege Open Mind Empty Mind

Book:Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

Source: Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

“It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.”

Men Giving Stills Might Born Worry Giving Up Fairs Assuming Males Privilege Superiors Shirts Minorities Iron Marvelous Be A Man Stop Worrying

Book:View from a Column

Source: View from a Column

“The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.”

Values Travel Privilege Value Of Life

Book:Summer cruise in the Mediterranean: on board an American frigate

Source: Summer cruise in the Mediterranean: on board an American frigate

“Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.”

Men Poor Poverty Rich Doors Privilege Block Prize Brat

Author:George MacDonald

“This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.”

Mind Reason Understanding Common Privilege Topics Authorship Abstinence Magnanimity

Book:Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb

Source: Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles Lamb

“This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!”

Ifs Children Done Father Enjoy Wealth Poor Generations Blessing Our Children Unions Privilege Legacy Glorious Honored Our Father Boundless Unborn Transmit

Author:Edward Everett

“I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.”

I Can Able Moving Walks Privilege

Author:Billy Graham

“Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.”

Should May Form Pay Alive Air Privilege Breathe Usefulness

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.”

Privilege Tact

Book:Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney

“Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!”

Ifs Men Years May Soul Age Impossible Youth Spring Privilege Heavy Our Time Sunshine Prime Worn Pastor Breeze Alas Springtime Mansions Moss Boyhood

Book:Tales and sketches

Source: Tales and sketches

“That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.”

Thinking Giving Age Left Causes Advice Folks Privilege Old Age Plenty

Book:Selected from the Women of Brewster Place

Source: Selected from the Women of Brewster Place

“We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“Holiness is not a privilege of a few but a need for all.”

Needs Privilege Holiness

Author:Mother Teresa

“Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.”

Kind Christian Industry Blessing Privilege Faithful Honorable Competence Loving Friends

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.”

Men Mind May States Religion Virtue He Man Equal Raises Privilege Humble Cease Opulence

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.”

Might Action Courses Goal Security Policy Degrees Understood Fairs International Privilege Primaries Protected Preservation Fifth Exploits Accuracy

Book:The Culture of Terrorism

Source: The Culture of Terrorism

“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.”

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?”

Mean Doe Has Beens Subjects Serious Concepts Notion Privilege Pursuit Free Will Chocolate Devoted

Author:Sandra Boynton

“If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.”

People Ifs Kind Names Voice Silence Moral Issues Heard Fame Importance Privilege Betrayal Obligation Urgent

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.”

Humans Care Privilege Health Care

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.”

Has Beens Real States Reason Care Privilege Available Health Care Health Care System Scandalous

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!”

Kind Solitude Brave Privilege All Kinds Receiving Ceremony Contention Envied

Book:Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.”

Individual Social Groups Intention Privilege Portions Organize Pretension

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.”

Ifs Knows Wells Use Might Photography Photographer Privilege Obligation Strict Privileged Unjust Immoral Yale

Author:Walker Evans

“The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“There's a lot of unrest. There are a lot of people who are unhappy. I don't want to say I'm their hero, but a lot of people have said that... It's like this in every job, I think. There's certain people who are afforded privileges and maybe, maybe don't deserve them.”

People Thinking Want Said Jobs Certain Hero Deserve Privilege Unhappy Unrest

Author:CM Punk

“I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.”

People Thinking Privilege End Times Refugee Spend Time Most Amazing Amazing People

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.”

World Way Mean Real Values Culture Love Is Lovers Ethics Structure Privilege Disappear Real Love Norm Being In Love Mean Love

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.”

Humans Conflict Ideals Claims Privilege Personal Happiness Resigning

Book:The Awakening of Helena Richie

Source: The Awakening of Helena Richie

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