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Quotes About Bias

The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.
~ Clairo
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
~ William Julius Wilson
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a strange connotation to that.
~ Ivanka Trump
Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be steered towards popular culture like hip-hop, new media and film on the basis that they will find older art forms such as opera or ballet irrelevant.
~ Munira Mirza
I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men!
~ Wendy Williams
Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.
~ Bozoma Saint John
It's all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just white women.
~ Meena Harris
If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?
~ Agnes Gund
Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
~ Mary Beard
Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.
~ Howard Jacobson
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
~ Franklin Foer
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
~ Thomas Sowell
I believe my chances of making the World Cup squad will improve if I join City. My exposure would be better because Brazil is biased towards the Ukrainian league.
~ Fernandinho
I know what people say about Fox and about what they say is a tilt to the right. Meanwhile, the reporters I know, like Bret Baier, are right down the middle and are tough on everybody.
~ Ed Henry
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
~ Thomas Sowell
I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!
~ Patricia Riggen
I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.
~ Andy Kindler
If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'
~ Jacob Weisberg
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
~ Michel Gondry
The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.
~ Dionne Bromfield
To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.
~ Hennessy Carolina
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
~ Adora Svitak