Biases Quotes

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 best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side.

Charles F. Glassman

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom,' we make a mockery of human rights.

DaShanne Stokes

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

Gregory C. Carlson

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.

Gregory C. Carlson

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.

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

DaShanne Stokes

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

What would it be like to live as a butterfly, being admired by the world for your color and beauty and grace? What would it be like to live as a spider, having people shriek and jump and throw a shoe at the very notice of you?I have tasted both―looks of desire and repulsion.How sad it is that we judge a life by such a trivial thing as appearance.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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.

Lyssa Danehy deHart

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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.

DaShanne Stokes

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

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.

Francis A.Schaeffer

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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.

Gregory C. Carlson

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

DaShanne Stokes

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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!

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

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.

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.

Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.

DaShanne Stokes

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.

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.

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

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

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

DaShanne Stokes

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