Meaning of privileged in English

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« My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults. »
Henry Louis Gates
« On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged. »
Martin Sheen
« I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. »
Robert Runcie
« Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. »
Mario Batali
« Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. »
Helen Keller