“Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.” LooksFactsPrivilegePermission Author:Peggy McIntosh
“I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.” ThinkingWhiteTaughtMalesPrivilegeWhite PrivilegeMale Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh
“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.” PeopleIfsGivingCountryLife IsCertainWhiteVirtueDoorsSubjectsGiving UpRacismPressurePrivilegeMythElusiveWhite PrivilegeFugitiveMeritocracyFree Country Author:Peggy McIntosh
“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.” WhiteSpecialClothesToolsPrivilegeInvisibleChecksMapsBlankProvisionPassportsVisaWhite PrivilegeBlank Check Author:Peggy McIntosh
“Privilege exists when one group has something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, rather than because of anything they’ve done or failed to do. Access to privilege doesn’t determine one’s outcomes, but it is definitely an asset that makes it more likely that whatever talent, ability, and aspirations a person with privilege has will result in something positive for them.” PersonsDoneValuesAbilityResultsGroupsTalentPrivilegeDetermineAccessOutcomesAspirationAssetsDenied Author:Peggy McIntosh
“As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.” PersonsWhiteTaughtRacismAdvantageAspectPrivilegeI RealizedDisadvantagesWhite Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh
“White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.” PeopleChoicesWhiteBenefitsConsciousAdvantageExperiencePrivilegeInequalityEqual RightsEntitlementEqual OpportunityWhite Privilege Author:Peggy McIntosh
