“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, and traffickers were white.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“White fear emanates from knowing that white privilege exists and the anxiety that it might end.” — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.” — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
“That is because Donald Trump is the literal face of white innocence without consciousness, white privilege without apology. Each” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know,… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter - we've seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn't… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
White Privilege is being able to take pride in your race, people assuming your poor because your white but you still have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“You know how the dinosaurs went extinct - they committed suicide when they saw the white man coming. They said to themselves,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a… — Thomas Norman DeWolf Copy Share Image
“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
“There is a big difference between the act of owning up to your part in perpetuating white privilege and the notion that… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“There is an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story. In our race-conscious society, our vocabulary often extends no further… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Susan’s and Jennifer’s job searches are likely made harder by the color of their skin. In the early 2000s, researchers in Chicago… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“When we leave the realm of cinema, it is obvious that the dynamics of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy---which has historically represented black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“By hiding behind the overarching term “white privilege,” the small percentage of privileged whites have ensured the following: first, they remain disguised… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“Both Richard and I sat silent and watched Jennifer Lee . She came across the room and over to us and swept… — Cecil Brown Copy Share Image
“To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re… — Michael S. Kimmel Copy Share Image
“The second part of the folk theory holds that racism is entirely a matter of individual beliefs, intentions, and actions. In the… — Jane H. Hill Copy Share Image
![“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a distorted image of American history, one informed by, and articulated from, a worldview permeated by white privilege. [sic], these biases are so hardwired that most of us…” quote by Thomas Norman DeWolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/thomas-norman-dewolf-84238_american-history_today-s-youth-cannot-escape-the-shadow-o_2575906.jpg)
