WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:16:56 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg privileges – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Carlin, George -- Show (2008-03-01), It’s Bad for Ya, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California (HBO) https://wist.info/carlin-george/54395/ https://wist.info/carlin-george/54395/#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:08:01 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=54395 Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but — there’s no such thing as rights. Okay? They’re imaginary. We made ’em up. […] Now, if you think you do have rights, one last assignment for you. Next time you’re at the computer, get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia I want you to type in “Japanese-American 1942,” and you’ll find all about your precious fucking rights, okay? […] Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took ’em away. And rights aren’t “rights” if someone can take ’em away — they’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a Bill of Temporary Privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.


George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Show (2008-03-01), It’s Bad for Ya, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California (HBO)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/carlin-george/54395/feed/ 0 54395 Baldwin, James -- “Faulkner and Desegregation,” Partisan Review (Fall 1956) https://wist.info/baldwin-james/13036/ https://wist.info/baldwin-james/13036/#respond Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:24:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=13036 Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free — he has set himself free — for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

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James Baldwin (1924-1987) American novelist, playwright, activist
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