Biases Quotes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

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

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

~ Daniel Kahneman

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

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

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ 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

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

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

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

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

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.

~ Criss Jami

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

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

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.

~ Amos Tversky