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The average man that might say, I'm against the abuse of women and girls quietly accepts the privileged position that we occupy, and this is very similar to what I knew when I was a child, when separate but equal had existed.
Even though they say, "I'm against discrimination against girls and women," they enjoy a privileged position.
And 30 years later I was sitting in an airplane, next to a lady called Veronica, who came from Chile, and we were on a human rights tour, and she was starting to tell me what it was like to be tortured, and, from my very privileged position, this was the only reference point that I had.
You know, another woman on Twitter that night, a New Statesman writer Helen Lewis, she reviewed my book on public shaming and wrote that she Tweeted that night, "I'm not sure that her joke was intended to be racist," and she said straightaway she got a fury of Tweets saying, "Well, you're just a privileged bitch, too."
But I didn't realize that that simple experience, though brief, was a privileged one in our community.
In 2005, I wrote an essay, "What is an Afropolitan," sketching out an identity that privileged culture over country.
Cultures, goods and people are in permanent exchange, but at the same time, the gap between the world of the privileged and the world of the excluded is growing.
From Sweden to Palau, writers and translators sent me self-published books and unpublished manuscripts of books that hadn't been picked up by Anglophone publishers or that were no longer available, giving me privileged glimpses of some remarkable imaginary worlds.
I felt tremendously privileged to be part of this transformation, a revolution.
The concept of global citizenship, self-evident in its logic but until now impractical in many ways, has coincided with this particular moment in which we are privileged to live.
Resist those who silence us, those who say that a prostitute is either too victimized, too damaged to know what's best for herself, or else too privileged and too removed from real hardship, not representative of the millions of voiceless victims.
As a white, cisgendered woman in the United States, there are many ways I'm very privileged.
There is a subtler, quieter disadvantage in having those privileged traits and yet feeling history to be moving away from you; that while the past was hospitable to people like you, the future will be more hospitable to others; that the world is growing less familiar, less yours day by day.
The United States has put four rovers on Mars since the mid-1990s, and I have been privileged enough to work on three of them.
I have wanted to work at JPL on these missions since I was 14 years old and I am privileged to be a part of it.
I assumed, because of my privileged upbringing and my Seven Sister education, that she would ask me to manage the restaurant.
And I came from a very privileged background.
I had a privileged life with a loving family and a successful career.
I was privileged to sit in on a loan negotiating session in an African country.
And some of you might be standing here thinking, saying, "OK, you know, Ory, you're Harvard-educated, and all you privileged people come here, saying, 'Forget the poor people.
We can all use these abstract structures to help us pivot between situations in which we are more privileged and less privileged.
We are all more privileged than somebody and less privileged than somebody else.
For example, I know and I feel that as an Asian person, I am less privileged than white people because of white privilege.
But I also understand that I am probably among the most privileged of nonwhite people, and this helps me pivot between those two contexts.
I'm privileged to be working with a team of economists, social policy experts and neuroscientists in leading Baby's First Years, the first-ever randomized study to test whether poverty reduction causes changes in children's brain development.
And perhaps the greatest living person is someone I'm privileged to know, Joe Rothblatt.
I've been privileged to spend my career catalyzing and connecting these movements throughout the tropics, and I've learned that as conservationists, our goal must be to win at scale, not just to lose more slowly.
Everything makes us so privileged, that we can eat this food, that we don't struggle every day.
Eat it, and feel privileged.
Alexei’s health improved, cementing the royal family’s belief that Rasputin had magical healing powers, and guaranteeing his privileged place on the royal court.
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