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“I do not believe guilt is inherited, but responsibility is, and there is nobody alive today whose existence has not been shaped by colonialist, racist forces. That is a legacy we all live with, and we should all deal with the consequences. If you have benefitted, then soaking yourself in remorse and guilt does not help anyone. What you can do, though, is ask constantly how you have felt those benefits. At whose expense were they gained?”
― Alice Procter, The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It

“Privilege comes in levels, Brit,â€� he continued. "You have the privilege he has given you. But you will never have the privilege he has just because he breathes.”
― Lola Akinmade Ã…kerström, In Every Mirror She's Black

“This morning the sunrise splashed a brilliant red across a sleepy sky. And I wondered what right I had to such a breathtaking sight. As I pondered the thought, I realized that this was not some right that I possess. Rather, it was a gift that God bestowed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In my next lifetime I wanted to come back as a guy. They seemed to always get the upper hand.”
― Victoria Laurie, Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye

“Sensuality is the privilege of the few who are willing to invest in themselves.”
― Lebo Grand

“no one on this planet
is in more denial
than the white man
who regardless of all
the evidence in front of him
still thinks racism and sexism
and all the world’s pain don’t exist”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“Privilege is just another word for not having to care.”
― Aral Balkan

“Those who say they will not vote or they prefer not to vote. It is either they are privilege or they are talking from the point of being privilege.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among us human creatures, and all professing to love liberty.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I couldn’t see all the privileges and rights I’ve had just because I had the chance to be born a white girl in a lovely, nice family in America.”
― Maricla Pannocchia, Letters from Afghanistan

“Even this far into the game, Leigh was always surprised by how fantastic it was to be a white, wealthy man.”
― Karin Slaughter, False Witness

“Not all those who lived in Falcrest participated in its devourings. But all those who lived in Falcrest had benefited from them, and by encouragement or by passive acceptance they had allowed those devourings to continue.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

“I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how race and masculinity were inventions that benefited me, and what I could do to challenge that.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

“When privilege takes precedence over people and the environment, society erodes.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“...what was in those days called social order, namely, the preservation of the privileges of the few who happened to have any, at the expense of the swinish multitude who happened to have none, except that of working and being shot at for the benefit of their betters:”
― Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian

“The restraint exhibited in exercising our liberties evidences our respect for them, our privilege to possess them, and our maturity in utilizing them. Any other use of them is something akin to thoughtless license, which just happens to be the archenemy of liberty.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Powerful leaders use wisdom to empower their followers because they understand the privilege of being offered an opportunity to lead.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“There is not a moment where a sunset is not happening. Yet, despite the fact that there is a sunset occurring at every moment of every day, no two are ever alike. And I marvel at the limitless genius of the God who handed me the privilege of living this day in a manner entirely unique to every yesterday and all tomorrows.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life. But don’t make it the last day that you actually think about that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Very few have a place on olympus.”
― monaristw

“One of the biggest problems with so-called "cancel culture" is not the "cancelling" itself. Instead, it the crisis of imagination that exposes our collective inability to engage the complexities of social issues with nuance.

What generally happens is that when there is any significant call for accountability and justice, it is uncritically deemed "cancel culture", pointing to the few extremes as "proof". Without question, ruthless public shaming and ostracization is never ultimately beneficial to all involved. However, that fact is too often forced through a binary lens that fails to address the individual and systemic issues at play, posit restorative/transformative consequences, and require better, more informed accountability.

This is further complicated by the tendency of those with social privilege to lean into the rhetoric of "dialogue" and some variety of "bothsidesism" that fails to address underlying systemic imbalances of power and relative impact of social issues, all while policing tone and emotion as though anger and hurt are disqualifying.

If there is a tendency for some to lean too strongly into "cancelling"- a legitimate issue that we need to address- it is largely because it is an attempt at correcting the over-emphasis on biased, normative systems that benefit the privileged and perpetuate harm.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Privilege and prosperity come with responsiblity.”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“And we say, ‘Down with the privileges of education, as well as those of birth!â€� We are anarchists precisely because these privileges revolt us. They revolt us already in this authoritarian society. Could we endure them in a society that began by proclaiming equality?”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings

“...[F]or centuries, there was peace,' I say.

'For the fey, there was peace,' he corrects. casting me an amused glance. Of course they found it peaceful. They were the ones in power. The held the reins. How could they not be at peace? The humans, however, were certainly never peaceful. They lived lives of fear and cowering.”
― Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

“...[F]or centuries, there was peace,' I say.

'For the fey, there was peace,' he corrects. casting me an amused glance. 'Of course they found it peaceful. They were the ones in power. The held the reins. How could they not be at peace? The humans, however, were certainly never peaceful. They lived lives of fear and cowering.”
― Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

“...[F]or centuries, there was peace," I say.

"For the fey, there was peace," he corrects. casting me an amused glance. "Of course they found it peaceful. They were the ones in power. They held the reins. How could they not be at peace? The humans, however, were certainly never peaceful. They lived lives of fear and cowering.”
― Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows

“The more powerful the group to which we belong, the less likely, generally, we are to question the system that legitimises and confers these privileges.”
― Anne Kearney, Counselling, Class and Politics: Undeclared Influences in Therapy

“I don’t know if today will be my last day. But I do know that it can be the first day that I begin to respect life enough to act as if it were my last.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”
― Julie Banks Lewis, Critical Masses: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Decides

“It strikes me that money can alleviate many of the miseries of common folk, but it opens up other avenues of suffering”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl