The concessions of the privileged to the underprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
(Attributed)
The concessions of the privileged to the underprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
(Attributed)
This is from Mill’s book “The Subjection of Women”. See the Project Gutenberg full text at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27083/27083-h/27083-h.htm and look at page 144. Your version doesn’t quite match the text: you have “underprivileged” where the Project Gutenberg version has “unprivileged”.