"I can take a job with an affirmative……" — Peggy McIntosh
"I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race."
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6 Quotes by Peggy McIntosh
Peggy McIntosh has 6 quotes on this site.
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I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my…
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White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
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Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they…
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As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage,…
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White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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