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Letter "P" » privilege
«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
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Sociologist)
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Keywords:
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Body Parts,
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environment,
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Great Society,
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privilege,
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superior,
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to that,
transcended,
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yoked,
yokes
«Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.»
«Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.»
«Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.»
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
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Critic,
Novelist,
Poet,
Translator)
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Keywords:
bestial,
bout,
bouts,
by fits and starts,
by no means,
commonplace,
defenseless,
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fierce,
fits,
intangible,
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nobility,
privilege,
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so as to,
sufferer,
sufferers,
torture,
uncalled-for,
waits
«Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.»
«Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more»
«Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality»
«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. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
belongs,
community,
die,
die hard,
harder,
I Want to Live,
long,
opinion,
privilege,
thoroughly,
used,
used up,
whatever,
whole
«I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(
Baptist Minister,
Civil-Rights Leader)
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Keywords:
American Dream,
argue,
bring forward,
confidently,
distinctions,
distributed,
distributes,
Distributing,
equality,
equality of opportunity,
In Living Color,
Italians,
Italian A,
Jews,
Land of Opportunity,
luxuries,
necessities,
Negroes,
privilege,
realization,
separateness,
skin color,
The Italian,
unfulfilled,
widely,
widely distributed