Quotes About Unearned Privilege

#1. Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ...

June Jordan

#2. Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

Peggy McIntosh

#3. 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.

Peggy McIntosh

#4. Nice moves, darlin'." He gripped her hands gently and pried them off his shirt. "You're getting stronger. That almost hurt.

Franca Storm

#5. 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.

Peggy McIntosh

#6. Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Stewart Alsop

#7. I get it, you know. I'm operating on privilege too. It may be a number of notches down from yours but it's every bit as unearned. I think the trick is to never forget it.

Sabrina Vourvoulias

#8. A good piece of art raises questions.

Rebecca Hall

#9. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

Ryan Giggs

#10. No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you." He leaned in. "It fucking kills me. Every night. I relive what I did to you every night." His forehead rested against mine. "Until you," he said softly, "I never felt truly helpless.

Nenia Campbell

#11. I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

Jeaniene Frost

#12. Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.

Avi

#13. A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

Robert Fisk

#14. People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

DaShanne Stokes