105 Quotes About White-privilege

Privilege is the right to remain silent when others can’t.

But when a given group is used to having all of the political power, and virtually unlimited privilege to define and name the world, any power sharing, any obligation to hear the opinions of formerly ‘subject races’ - who would have once been called uppity niggers and lynched accordingly - can feel like oppression.

I noticed a trend with white communists.They do not value autonomy and liberation, they value control and dominance, just like their political counterparts. They do not oppose centralized power, they oppose centralized power that they do not have ownership of.It isn't about the liberation of marginalized classes, it's about placing power within the white "working class" and those in proximity to them.

Privilege lies in obliviousness. (White privilege, for instance, involves being able to reliably forget that race matters.)

Diversity” too often diverts attention from the root problem: Normative whiteness.

Solidarity is nothing but self-satisfying if it is solely performative

If you don't have an anti-racism plan, you plan to be racist.

Act now, because people are dying now in this unjust system. How many lives have been ground up by racial prejudice and hate? How many opportunities have we already lost? Act and talk and learn and fuck up and learn some more and act again and do better. We have to do this all at once. We have to learn and fight at the same time. Because people have been waiting far too long for their chance to live as equals in this society.

Now that I have been brought home by carriage and climbed into my bed, my fury has burned out, and I am left cold and tired. Why do we insist on inflicting more suffering on a world that is already fraught with it? It is here that I must part ways with Father's romantic spirit, for I suspect that it is a curse of nature, some original instinct that we have failed to shed. And I am no better than others, for in the face of it, I would keep quiet and retreat.