White women Quote by The Women's March Organizers

“Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least…

— Lindy West

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit a fair…

— Irin Carmon

“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

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“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

“And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can…

— Malebo Sephodi

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

— Kirsten Powers

“Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not…

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

“Then the white man talk about how some people trying to use smooth talk to win people over and how totalitarianism always happens with…

— Marlon James

“When I offered the word "Womanism" many years ago, it was to give us a tool to use, as feminist women of color, in…

— Alice Walker

“WE MUST WORK HARDER TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE THAT RACIAL BIAS AND GENDER BIAS CANNOT BE SEPARATED. THEY WORK TOGETHER.”

— The Women's March Organizers