Best Unconscious Bias Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding

“The systems within our organizations continue to churn out disparities and inequities, and all too often, those charged with fixing the problem look to the wrong source.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“It can feel as if we’re giving up our own values or giving in to the other person’s preferences. The reality is, it’s not giving up but adding on.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“Being in the dominant group, where the culture matches our culture, tends to lead to not only advantage, but also conscious laziness.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“Our Filters are what we need to pay attention to, yet they are what many of us are oblivious to.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“The vital question we each need to ask ourselves is not if but when and where I am contributing to disparities in my profession, in my system, in my community?”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“We think we are in conscious control and are making our own decisions when, in actuality, we aren’t.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“We mistakenly believe our cultural behaviors are the good, right, and respectful behaviors. What convinces us of that misperception? Our Filters.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“Our challenge is how to identify and talk about our differences, well, differently.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“Unless we’re interacting with a mirror all day, we are interacting across differences.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“Organization after organization has created a culture of, for, and by only round holes, yet they say they want square and triangle and star pegs.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“Equality applies the same rules and advantages to all in an attempt to treat everyone fairly. While used with the best of intentions, the results are rarely equal.”

Leadership Development Equity Diversity And Inclusion Human Resources Biases Dei Equity And Inclusion Organizational Development Unconscious Bias

Book:Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

Source: Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

“CAMPERS is a seven-step process you can use to improve your ability to provide inclusive, nonjudgmental care when you are planning, engaging in, and reflecting on a patient interaction. The letters in the mnemonic device stand for: clear purpose, attitudes and beliefs, mitigation plan, patient, emotions, reactions, and strategy.”

Healthcare Lgbtq Hospice Unconscious Bias Palliative Care

Book:LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice

Source: LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice

“After it happened I was at a loss for words. Haven't you said this yourself? Haven't you said this to a close friend who early in your friendship, when distracted, would call you by the name of her black housekeeper? You assumed you two were the only black people in her life. Eventually she stopped doing this, though she never acknowledged her slippage. And you never called her on it (why not?) and yet, you don't forget.”

Relationships Friendship Racism Bias African Americans Blacks Race Relations Whites Unconscious Bias

Book:Citizen: An American Lyric

Source: Citizen: An American Lyric

“. . . [I]t's very difficult to ask questions of nature that aren't somehow already colored by our very human preconceptions. Even the simplest, most objective, questions may play into preexisting prejudices.”

Prejudices Unconscious Bias

Book:The Hole in the Universe

Source: The Hole in the Universe

“I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views.”

Bias Unconscious Bias

Book:Termush

Source: Termush

“People in a majority or socially supported position, no matter how well-meaning, are often so protected in their assumptions about the world that they do not even know they are making assumptions.”

Privilege Assumptions Unconscious Bias

Book:Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

Source: Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“These disfigured relationships were handed down through the generations. The people whose ancestors had put them atop the hierarchy grew accustomed to the unearned deference from the subjugated group and came to expect it.”

Unconscious Bias

Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Americans of today have inherited these distorted rules of engagement whether or not their families had enslaved people or had even been in the United States.”

Unconscious Bias

Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents