A. H. Mcintosh Quotes
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
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.
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.
When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.
The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.
Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.
Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.
Part of obedience to the Golden Rule is knowing how to respond once you've behaved in an unloving way.
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.
Accept the pain cherish the joys resolve the regrets then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over I'd do it all the same."
Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.
Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
Why was it so unlikely that you could meet your soul mate by hitting her with your vehicle? Why was it more likely you’d meet her at your cousin’s wedding?
The waltz was the only way a young couple could touch one another, and even through gloves I could feel the heat of your grandfather's touch, 'she'd tell Luc, with a wicked glimmer in her eye.
The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.
If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.
This is the future, ” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.
I loved them too and while you might lay a greater claim to them, I defy you to miss your wife any more than I’ll miss my best friend or your child, who was every inch a son to me.