Unprivileged Quotes & Sayings

Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, its homogenization of diverse social oppression; fourth, its simplification of the complexity and paradox of being privileged and unprivileged; and fifth its ruling out of intersectional space of diverse forms of oppression in reality. — Namsoon Kang

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged. — Stephane Hessel

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them. — John Stuart Mill

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence. — Victor Hugo

This fills me with anger, although I already know that it is in the normal order of things that the privileged oppress the unprivileged: the social structure of the camp is based on this human law. — Primo Levi

Make this confession out loud: "I am the righteousness of God in Christ. — Kenneth E. Hagin

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. — Mason Cooley

Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners. — Patricia Briggs

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new. — Joe Wright

In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor. — Eugene Kennedy

Every inch a person's body travels on the road of separation seems like miles to the heart. — Naguib Mahfouz