Change Quote by Robin DiAngelo

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism…

— Bell Hooks

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

Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit…

— Peggy McIntosh

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

What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little…

— Tim Wise

Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social…

— Emily Raboteau

“In ways so closely tied to an individual's sense of self that it may not be apparent, the set of assumptions, privileges, and benefits…

— Derrick Bell

“The ostensible culprit is liberalism’s bitterly contested remedies which asked too much of whites. Yet this ignores the long history, in the North as…

— Ian Haney López

“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

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

— Robert J. Shiller

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and…

— Tim Wise

“My friends, we cannot win the respect of the white people of the South or elsewhere if we are willing to trade the future…

— Martin Luther King Jr