Class Quote by Ayelet Waldman

“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“There is a big difference between the act of owning up to your part in perpetuating white privilege and the notion that you alone,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with…

— Paula Rothenberg

White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with…

— Paula Rothenberg

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

— London Breed

“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White privilege is…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white…

— 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…

— Peggy McIntosh

Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy…

— Bell Hooks

“When keeping Black and brown people marginalized literally elevates white people, as they use our backs as stairs, why would they want us to…

— Luvvie Ajayi

White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all true and…

— Michael Eric Dyson