Cathy O'Neil Quotes

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Nobody at the FA has ever explained why I was overlooked and not even asked for an interview.

People who are labeled as disrespectful do not get the same opportunities afforded to those who are labeled as respectful.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

I snore. I've had two or three people complain about it.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

I want to re-visit everything. We're people and we're so different. I think it would just be nice if it wasn't just like, "Eww, women." That would be a big thing for me.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.

I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.