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title: "1 Privilege Like Quotes By Peggy McIntosh"
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> [White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/white-privilege-is-like-an-invisible-weightless-knapsack-of-special/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

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## More by Peggy McIntosh

> [I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/i-can-take-a-job-with-an-affirmative-action-employer-without-having/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/it-seems-to-me-that-obliviousness-about-white-advantage-like/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/white-privilege-is-like-an-invisible-weightless-knapsack-of-special/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/white-privilege-is-the-unquestioned-and-unearned-set-of-advantages/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/most-talk-by-whites-about-equal-opportunity-seems-to-me-now-to-be/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/as-a-white-person-i-realized-i-had-been-taught-about-racism-as/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/if-my-day-week-or-year-is-going-badly-i-need-not-ask-of-each-negative/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/i-was-taught-to-see-racism-only-in-individual-acts-of-meanness-not-in/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/privilege-exists-when-one-group-has-something-of-value-that-is-denied/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/for-me-white-privilege-has-turned-out-to-be-an-elusive-and-fugitive/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/one-question-for-me-and-others-like-me-is-whether-we-will-get-truly/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/i-think-whites-are-carefully-taught-not-to-recognize-white-privilege/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/whites-are-taught-to-think-of-their-lives-as-morally-neutral/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

> [Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-mcintosh/power-from-unearned-privilege-can-look-like-strength-when-it-is-in/)

[Peggy McIntosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-mcintosh/)

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