Unearned Privilege Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Some people think it's a jungle out here. It's not ... It's a fucking zoo! - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

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

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun. — Andrea Gibson

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate. — 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. — Peggy McIntosh

But it was one thing to know that your privilege was unearned; it was another thing entirely to feel that your sadness was, too - to have to be so pitifully glad, so pitifully sorry, for the modest perks of a dull and diligent middle-class life (TV, and Target candles, and a trip to Six Flags every year). — Jennifer DuBois

There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance. — Meg Cabot

The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators — William J. Clinton

My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be prone to mortgage and attach itself, I would not last: I am too tender, both by nature and by practice. — Michel De Montaigne

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve. — Carlos Gonzalez

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

I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are. — Marco Roth

This is God's victory: not mine. — Philippa Gregory

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. — Doris Lessing