Biases And Prejudice Quotes & Sayings

Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words? — DaShanne Stokes

Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's tradition. — DaShanne Stokes

Death is the beginning of Immortality. - MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE — Kami Garcia

WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME. — Anonymous

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. — Walter Cronkite

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. — Thomas Pynchon

When generalizations turn into painful cultural stereotypes and biases, those biased narratives disrupt our ability to see each event as individual, which interrupts our ability to intelligently and compassionately respond to what's happening now. In many cases, our generalizations cause real harm, like somebody shooting a person who looks "suspicious" because he fits a racial profile. Generalization is what leads to oppression. Deconstructing our generalizations is the only way to overcome bias. This is where studying emptiness is intended to lead us - toward the cessation of prejudice. — Ethan Nichtern

He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice. — John Howard Griffin

We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, and must affirm that we are the product of circumstance without denying that we have the freedom to transcend that causality to become something which could not even have been provisioned from the circumstances which shaped us. — Allen Wheelis

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say. — Nalini Singh

Unfortunately, though, even in our own time, the stigma that can attach to the cleverest person in the room sometimes intensifies if that person happens to be a woman. To imagine that Fuller could conduct herself as she did and never run afoul of gender prejudice is fanciful. To suppose that such biases were alone responsible for her troubles is equally so. — John Matteson

A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity, before the church had been corrupted by centuries of laxity and abuse, to locate divine truth. — Nathaniel Philbrick

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. — Benjamin Franklin

When there's no more room in hell, this artifact said, the dead will walk the earth. — Stephen King

Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do?' I'll give them my recommendations. — Raul Ruiz

Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power. — Akshat Paul

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

Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast ... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic ... So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space ... — Edward Abbey

I almost never danced, as much as I wanted to. I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have. — Jack Hyles

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American. — Keith Stanfield

Many ways to fly, but only one way to fall. — Kirsty Logan