Quotes About Bias

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

I remember after that, when it was announced I was going to the Heisman ceremony, I didn't think I was going to win it because everybody was saying there was a bias against West Coast teams. I really hadn't paid attention to it. Winning the Heisman wasn't really a goal when I was younger. My goal was to go to USC and win a national championship.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively.

I know there are certain powers who would rather have the champions be Eastern European because there's more money in it.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they're this way is a prejudice.

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.