Best social-justice & privilege Quotes

Source: How the World Works

“I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.”

Ifs Men Culture Black Justice White Mankind Equal Diversity Social Justice Privilege Possession Favors Separation Enjoyment Brotherhood White Man Castes Subservient

Author:Martin Delany

“The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.”

Justice Class Diversity Conscious Essence Social Justice Privilege Privileged Deprived Deprivation Class System

Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs

Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs

“Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.”

Justice Responsibility Greater Rights Diversity Performances Social Justice Endure Privilege Protection Obligation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.”

Men Humans Belief Justice Rights Succeed Equal Diversity Social Justice Wine Privilege Bottles Equal Rights Human Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.”

Justice Diversity Social Justice Privilege

Book:Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

Source: Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

“True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”

Force Justice Enemy Diversity Social Justice Injustice Privilege Oppression Revolutionary True Religion

Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”

“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 whatever I can.”

“A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.”

Should Girl Sex Women Justice Special Prejudice Social Justice Privilege Discrimination Womens Rights Mystique Feminine Mystique

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.”

People Persons Justice White Responsibility Events Color Balance Racism Social Justice Privilege Racist Subconscious Reacting

Author:Eileen O'Brien

“Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.”

“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

“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.”

Class Poverty Society Social Justice Privilege Aids Oppression Inequality Help Social Work Hiv Stigma Counseling Status Other Social Inequality

Author:Agnostic Zetetic

“Expressions of kindness in times of social change and public protest should focus on those who are seeking justice and liberation and not on the ones whose privileged worlds are being disrupted by the leveling of a social playing field or a correction in disparities of access, power, or authority.”

Justice Kindness Power Social Justice Privilege Protest Social Change Disruption

Author:Bruce Reyes-Chow

“It is your privilege that shapes what you get to worry about and it is a lack of privilege that shapes what she must worry about.”

Worry Social Justice Privilege Finance Soical Change

Author:Roxane Gay

“We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive”

Empathy Racism Social Justice Privilege Civil Rights Oppression Tension Nonviolence Oppressors Conflict Resolution White Privilege Nonviolent Conflict Resolution Confronting Privilege

Author:Martin Luther King Jr.

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given to every American, regardless of socioeconomic status.”

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Book:Critical Masses: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Decides

Source: Critical Masses: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Decides

“People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.”

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

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