Your privilege, insofar as it divides you from others, is i… - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

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Your privilege, insofar as it divides you from others, is in your way, unless you resolve how to use it for others, as well as for yourself.

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Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (September 9, 1945 – July 10, 2018) was a Jewish American essayist, poet, academic, and political activist against racism and for economic and social justice who lived in the USA.

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