Top Bias Quotes

It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd mad...

When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is not...

Bias Definition

(n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.

(n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.

(n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

(n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

(a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

(a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

(adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

(v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all.

If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since violation of standards, rules, and goals are insufficient in its elicitation unless responsibility c...

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

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gu...

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

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

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

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

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.