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“If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.”

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Grace Coolidge

Grace Anna Coolidge served as the 30th First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929, during the presidency of her husband, Calvin Coolidge. She was known for her reserved and modest character, and her time as First Lady was characterized by simplicity and humility. Grace Coolidge was also the first First Lady to hold a press conference, and she was active in various charitable endeavors, particularly those benefiting children and the deaf. more

“It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.”

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Author:Peggy McIntosh

“one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.”

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Author:Peggy McIntosh

“Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.”

Trying Seems Opportunity Position Equal Racism Dominance Equal Opportunity White 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.”

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Author:Peggy McIntosh

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