Quotes About Bias

The media loves negative spin.

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.