Negative Stereotypes Quotes

• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Fighting, Mind Blowing

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

  Barack Obama

  Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Beautiful, Country, Artist

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• I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say, "This is what I am: a comedian, a show host, a writer." It will still always be part of the conversation and people will want to focus on it because there is a culture that is so embedded that if you have a disability, you're someone to be either admired just for living, or be pitied for having to struggle.

  Zach Anner

  Struggle, Responsibility, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

  David R. Mains

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  Jane Rule

  Gay, People, Political

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.

  Eddie Gibbs

  Jesus, Thinking, Church

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Smart, School, Simple

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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• Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

  Bell Hooks

  Fashion, White, Black

  Bell Hooks (2004). “We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, Math, Empowering

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• Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.

  Robert Griffin III

  Running, Thinking, Moon

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