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”.
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”.