America Quote by Theodore Melfi

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

— Peggy McIntosh

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege,

— Jon Stewart

For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing…

— Peggy McIntosh

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the…

— Raoul Peck

As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the…

— Beto O'Rourke

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding.…

— Bocafloja

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of…

— June Jordan

There is a privilege in American society to being male and being white, and I think it's hard for white males to understand that…

— John Landgraf

“It is not a secret that most American and Western institutions and workplaces are very much like mountains: the higher one climbs, the whiter…

— Louis Yako

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

— Peggy McIntosh

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much…

— Tomochichi