Top Privilege Quotes
The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an...
Simon Tam
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community, dominant, identity, oppression, power, privilege, race, racism, reappropriation, reclaiming
Privilege Definition
(n.) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
(n.) See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
(v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
(v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.