Chance Quote by Irin Carmon

“Many white women wanted to talk about “unity,” but without acknowledging our privilege; that erodes trust and then it all falls apart.”

— The Women's March Organizers

“I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188”

— Sonia Sotomayor

That's the nightmare for Elizabeth Warren, because I can attack her from the left. I can say, 'Wait a minute, what do you know…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Unlike many such recipients of government largesse, however, she had qualifications beyond race, sex, and religion.”

— Gregg Loomis

“We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want…

— Cherríe L. Moraga Gloria Anzaldua

“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

“She smashed stereotypes and bridged a racial gap in our country like few who've gone before.”

— BeBe Winans

“I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud; I am not the candidate of the women's movement of…

— Shirley Chisholm

“Waking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her…

— John Le Carre

“blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.”

— Cordelia Fine

“It is not right to suggest that every win for race equality results in a loss for white working-class people”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge