No Privilege Quotes

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

We contend that in all laws made, or to be made, every person shall be bound alike—neither should any tenure, estate, charter, degree, birth or place, confer any exemption from the ordinary course of legal proceedings and responsibilities whereunto others are subjected.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

There is no VIP. We're all the same.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

There's no silver spoon treatment in this place.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and my wedding was not on the cover of a magazine.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.