Achieve Quote by Eileen O'Brien

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality…

— Nicholas Kristof

Our vulnerability is that both blacks and whites can use our impossible racial authenticity against us. Both races can throw up our mixed background…

— Shelby Steele

The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Whether they are able to enact it as lived practice or not, many white folks active in anti-racist struggle today are able to acknowledge…

— bell hooks

One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves…

— Robin DiAngelo

“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

I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.

— Michael Eric Dyson

The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

— Robin DiAngelo

“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to survive—and, even…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

It became clear over time that white people have extremely low thresholds for enduring any discomfort associated with challenges to our racial worldviews.

— Robin DiAngelo

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

— Jesse Lee Peterson