And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions... and met far graver challenges... and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S McCain.
By the act of March 16, 1878 ( 20 Stat. 30), a defendant in a criminal case may, 'at his own request but not otherwise, be a competent witness.' Under that statute it is a matter of choice whether he become a witness or not, and his failure to accept the privilege 'shall not create any presumption against him.' This forbids all comment in the presence of the jury upon his omission to testify.
Haggis's experience in Scientology, though, was hardly egalitarian: he accepted the privileges of the Celebrity Centre, which offers notables a private entrance, a V.I.P. lounge, separate facilities for auditing, and other perks.
We must accept the realities of privilege.
The question is how well Fretilin's militants would accept losing the privileges of office.
They are relatively rich and can hardly accept losing the privileges and the social prestige associated with the management of conventional cotton cooperatives (see also Alidou, 2014).
Every owner ought to be obliged formally to accept the duty that the privilege of processing a dog requires.
It was important to me to accept the responsibility and the privilege to help bring some of those things I have learned from people on the streets".
However, the resistance to accept the existence of white privilege is, in fact, an insult to all Black people, who see the manifestation and experience that dynamic of white privilege everyday.
U.S. Chief Justice Fred Vinson's opinion, issued at the height of Cold War hyperconcern with national defense, goes so far as to instruct trial judges that, in some circumstances, they should accept the executive branch's privilege without conducting their own private examination of the documents at issue to test the plausibility of the claim.
But unless we are willing to accept the inter-relatedness of our privilege with someone else's poverty and allow that understanding to change how we live our lives, we are just exercising our privilege even more.
