bias

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.

Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

It is not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased.

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

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

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.