Robin DiAngelo Quotes

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Disclosure is the antidote to partiality and favor.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

This is 'Southland,' so we don't editorialize.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I am not a rabid partisan.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.