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“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.”

People Today Past Form Political Black Effort Leader Moral Exercise Suicide Privilege Indifference Voting Apathy Polls Black History Apathetic Moral Failure

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Education is not a privilege, it is a right!”

Author:William J. Clinton

“That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.”

Children Guy Parent Privilege Grandparent Bad Guys Indulge Naughty Subversive

Author:Toby Stephens

“Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.”

World Should Children Helping Passion Imagination Challenges Possibility Lucky Lifetime Privilege Endless Sparks New World Ignite Music Education Children's Imagination

Author:Hillary Clinton

“A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.”

Psychology Privilege Stuck Rejects Positive Psychology

Author:Ariel Gore

“It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.”

People World Body Christian Strong Church Praying Privilege Conviction Believer Locals Ministers Local Church

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.”

Facts Eye Science Genius Relation Privilege Perceive Isolated Vulgar

Book:Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt

Source: Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt

“The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.”

Way Needs Country States Moments Desire Purpose Politics Rights Equal Mark Majority Mere Privilege Selfish Minorities That Moment Voters Superiority Advancement Equal Rights Hamper

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.”

Lying Politics Privilege Criminals Zero Offence Subversion Invocation

Author:William J. Clinton

“To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.”

Years Children Character Feelings Wonder Childhood Talent Genius Mark Privilege Appearance Familiar Adulthood Novelty Sense Of Wonder

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.”

Believe May Real Matter Form Faith I Believe Religious Sacred Privilege Arguing Decline Humankind Religious Faith Demonstration Sanctuary

Author:Herbert Hoover

“Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.”

Want I Can Would Be Friendship Silence Imagine Understood Privilege Evening Assumption Gathering Courtesy Civility Recoil Saying Nothing

Book:T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work

Source: T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work

“Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.”

Realizing Ability Compassion Accepting Weakness Depth Privilege Tolerate

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“The case may very well be that Congress is willing to restrict campaign contributions because it has these privileges. It is true that incumbents normally get larger contributions than their challengers. The opponents at least get some money, but they do not have access to the perquisites of the incumbent.”

Wells May Cases Willing Congress Privilege Access Campaigns Opponents Contribution Incumbents Campaign Contributions

Author:Gordon Tullock

“Being a role model is a privilege.”

Roles Models Privilege Role Models Being A Role Model

Author:Allyson Felix

“In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.”

Writing May Persons Heard Paper Privilege Engaged Dependent Panic

Author:E. B. White

“I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.”

Knows Dream Light Situation Mathematics Privilege Flying Impulse Recalls Angle Curves

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.”

Problem Able Language Alive Century Privilege Lists Meaningless Illiterate

Author:John Thomas Sladek

“Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.”

Men Art Play Earth Fate Privilege Cheerful Exile

Book:Essays (Annotated Edition)

Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)

“This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.”

Thinking Jobs Love You Privilege Love Your Job

Author:Sarah Burton

“We now have the sweetest, kindest and most generous fans from far away places - it’s a real privilege.”

Real Fans Privilege Generous Far Away Sweetest

Author:Nick Littlemore

“Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.”

People Men Important President Enemy Office Privilege Pleasant Franklin Qualifications

Author:Walter Lippmann

“The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.”

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.”

Wells Worship Dollars Privilege Almighty Heredity

Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.”

Sex Women My Own Existence Gone Claims Privilege

Author:Jane Austen

“There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.”

World States Pain Silence Doubt Sorrow Bounds Privilege No Doubt Silence Is Aristocratic

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.”

Labor Aim Privilege Enthusiasm Faithfulness Laborers Elevating

Book:An Idyl of Work

Source: An Idyl of Work

“Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.”

Three Teacher Rewards Privilege Leisure Misuse Being A Teacher

Book:THE ART OF TEACHING

Source: THE ART OF TEACHING

“The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.”

Source: The Royal Art

“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

“Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.”

Pain Attention Conditions Design Fundamentals Privilege Profit Accidents Granted Privacy Relative

Book:Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

“Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.”

Want Today President Chance Answers Offers Fame Office Glory Privilege Burden Presidency

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.”

Littles States Running Pleasure Privilege Treasure Ministers Errands

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.”

Should Seems Care Certain Walks Taken Streets Civilization Mark Safety Privilege Granted Health Care Civilized Taken For Granted Civilized Society

Author:Alan Bennett

“. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.”

Source: Favorite Poems

“The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.”

Ifs Asks Prayer Answers Praying Privilege Dare Possession Convince Criticize Venture

Author:Wilfred Grenfell

“There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.”

Men Stills Girl Grows Animal Growing Up Economic Land Ethics Relation Property Plant Slave Privilege Obligation Odysseus Slave Girl

Book:The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

“I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are and choose to be a member of a privileged and dominant class, one of your privileges being not to notice.”

Knows Class Morning Like You Members Privilege You Choose Dominant Privileged Heterosexuality Heterosexuality Is

Book:Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992

Source: Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992

“Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.”

States Government Social Church Justice Support Special Criticism Social Justice Financial Privilege Separation Prophetic Financial Support

Book:Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context

Source: Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context

“Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.”

World Life Matter Spiritual Life Is Struggle Privilege Life Is A Struggle

Author:Muhammad Iqbal

“Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.”

I Can Can Do Forever Survival Asking Privilege Obligation Survived

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.”

Men Feels Reality Earth Suffering Behinds Hell Glory Green Privilege Illness Mental Illness Worthwhile Green Earth

Author:Clifford Whittingham Beers

“Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.”

Has Beens Three Opportunity Given Our Lives Talent Privilege Parables Stewards Precious Gifts

Author:George Vaillant

“I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.”

Thinking Actors Privilege Intense

Author:Elia Kazan

“I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.”

World Kids Grows Wealth Class Growing Up Middle Privilege Middle Class Relative

Author:Matt Damon

“I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.”

Chance Talent Unique Privilege

Author:Novak Djokovic

“I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.”

Government Unions Privilege Traditional Grants Homosexual Family Life Marriage And Family Traditional Marriage

Author:Todd Akin

“I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.”

Guy Certain Fit Very Good Casts Privilege Careful Contempt Looking Good

Author:Neil LaBute

“Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.”

Care Opportunity House Responsibility Leader Succeed Affair Privilege Wounds Committees Veteran Our Veterans Privilege And Responsibility

Author:Steve Buyer