Privilege Loss Quotes

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

All privileges by legislation attached to nobility, title, and rank shall be abolished.

I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended by equality because when you've had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.

Being in the entertainment industry, I do have some privileges, but when I'm off sets and in the real world, I'm a trans individual whose rights and safety have been taken away.

No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

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

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

A privilege accruing to the majority ceases to be such.

You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.