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Peggy McIntosh has 6 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
• White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
• Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to,…
• As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had…
• White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.…
• I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it…

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