Implicit Bias Quotes

“Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“No amount of psychological therapy or group training can effectively address racism in this country, unless we also begin to dismantle the structures of racism.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

“A flawless delusion is more appealing to the human mind than a flawed reality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Spare the biases, spoil the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent

“Life is one big prejudice unless you question everything.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“A police officer oblivious to their errors and shortcomings is no different from the Gestapo. Such police may be suitable in Nazi Germany, Imperialist Britain, Confederate America or the Amazon jungle, but they have no place in a society of civilized beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Biases continuously try to keep us from recognizing and understanding those biases. For example, racial biases keep us from understanding racial discrimination, just like religious biases keep us from understanding religious discrimination and cultural biases keep us from understanding the inhuman habits in our cultural traditions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“The petition argued that the Court's decision was a dire mistake; if the decision were allowed to stand and prosecutors were compelled to explain gross racial disparities such as the ones at issue, it would...'paralyze the criminal justice system'—apparently because severe and inexplicable racial disparities pervaded the system as a whole.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Whether bad or good, whether justified or unjustified, our beliefs and attitudes can become so strongly associated with the category that they are automatically triggered, affecting our behavior and decision making. So, for example, simply seeing a black person can automatically bring to mind a host of associations that we have picked up from our society: this person is a good athlete, this person doesn’t do well in school, this person is poor, this person dances well, this person lives in a black neighborhood, this person should be feared. The process of making these connections is called bias. It can happen unintentionally. It can happen unconsciously. It can happen effortlessly. And it can happen in a matter of milliseconds. These associations can take hold of us no matter our values, no matter our conscious beliefs, no matter what kind of person we wish to be in the world.”
― Janet L. Eberhardt

“A human mind that has a hold over its prejudices is like the fabled philosopher's stone, everything it touches turns to gold, whereas a savage mind which is run by its prejudices is like an infectious disease, wherever it goes it causes death and destruction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Dear officers of the law, if you find it difficult to maintain order without being a badge-bearing barbarian, seek professional help, for you are ill, terribly ill, and the cure for your illness is education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“The purpose of reason is not to turn this world cold, but to rid it of biases - of prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“The road to a civilized world goes through the dark woods of biases.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“As long as law defends the people against inhumanity, it may be entitled to the approval of the people, but the moment it turns against people, whether willingly or driven by subconscious biases, then it is the duty of the people to stand up with unarmed, nonviolent determination and fire such lawkeepers and lawmakers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“Biases are nature's algorithm for the preservation of life, but unlike mechanical algorithms, nature's algorithm in human neuroanatomy is accompanied by the capacity to defy that predominant algorithm and write new ones with acts of self-regulation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“When we know not we are inhuman, there is no question of being human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“The fundamental fact of human nature is, we are a septic tank of prehistoric biases. Sectarianism comes to us far too easily, for we are all fundamentally racist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“The end of racism starts with the recognition of racism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“We Are All Racist (The Sonnet)

If we are still uncomfortable to face,
The roots of racism, how can we uproot racism!
Unless we recognize our tendency for division,
How can we ever be the cause of universalism!
The fundamental fact of human nature is,
We are a septic tank of prehistoric biases.
Sectarianism comes to us far too easily,
For we are all fundamentally racist.
Cruelty is the mainspring of survival in the wild,
So our brain leans more towards cruelty than kindness.
Millions of years of conditioning won't vanish overnight,
We must self-regulate with our newly developed conscience.
The end of racism starts with the recognition of racism.
We are civilized only when we recognize our uncivilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“A society that has conquered its biases and assumptions, has mastered order.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Perception is all about assumption,
Our brain hasn't evolved to observe reality.
Biases prevent the observation of biases, unless,
You are hellbent to expand across comfort and luxury.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Neuroscience of Ideology (The Sonnet)

No matter the intention of origin,
No ideology can stand uncorrupt through time.
Even the perfect of theories fall apart, because,
The brain can't pledge obedience without being blind.
To maintain the grandeur of an ideology,
The mind chooses to switch off certain faculties.
Thus the mind starts digging its own grave,
As well as for the world, without even knowing it.
Ideology relevant today won't be relevant tomorrow,
But the ideology itself isn't aware of this.
Thus in the guise of savior it keeps raising sheep,
Who then turn defensive and ruin all possibility of peace.
Borders don't preserve peace, borders only breed war.
All peace is fiction till we treat every border
as Donald Trump's wall.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Every atom in the world is teeming with lessons, but no atom is free from biases and predispositions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Remove the ism,
you got race.
Remove the race,
you got the human.
Remove the man,
you got who?
Remove the who,
and you got no clue.
Now we can start,
without any predominance.
Let us discover life,
in its full magnificence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“We are civilized not when we don't behave uncivilized. We are civilized when we know when we behave uncivilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Neurons aware are neurons of heaven, neurons untamed are neurons of hell.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“If you give in, the jungle gains another predator. If you stand firm, the world gains a transformer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Human is born, not when the water breaks,
Human is born, when the bias breaks.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“There is no perception without bias, yet,
Biaslessness oughta be the aim of perception.
We can never be fully free from biases,
But in trying so we shall become less inhuman.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Human is born, not when the water breaks,
Human is born, when the bias breaks.
Person grows, not when the body grows,
But when the mind outgrows fear and prejudices.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World