Biases Quotes

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions with others.

Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world and start working untiringly on eradicating them.

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs.

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of meanings that have rubbed onto them as a result of their palling around with other words.

There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind -- what they are in their thought-world determines how they act. This is true of their value systems and it is true of their creativity. It is true of their corporate actions, such as political decisions, and it is true of their personal lives. The results of their thought-world flow through their fingers or from their tongues into the external world.

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that outshine the girls in the US. The variable factor is the educational system, the society and the parents.

Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.

Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire?

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any earlier.

Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the privileged' routine.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.

Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.

The lenses and filters that we see the world through are so firmly attached to our faces that it requires great awareness and then courage to pull the lenses off and look at ourselves and the world around us from any other viewpoint.

If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

This is not a Black problem. It is not a white problem. It is not a police problem. It is a WE problem. We the people, for the people. It is going to take all of us being transparent in order to transform.

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely free from all biases, nevertheless, the more a person rigorously trains the self to be rational and conscientious, the more that self becomes strong enough to keep the biases in check, never to let them run rampant over the psyche.

One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.

Why are the police REALLY having trouble recruiting officers - especially Black officers? We have to bridge the gap between community and law enforcement.

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.

The nature of your outcome or problem in large part depends upon you. The side of the road is not the time, nor is it the place to try to prove to a law enforcement officer whether you are right or wrong. That is what the courtroom is for.This is an excellent example of what can happen when we remove the biases that affect the choices we make whenever these interactions take place. The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!

If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

Truth’s nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

Stop reacting to the stereotypes and start responding to the individual.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.