Stigma Quotes - Page 2

• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

  Harry Belafonte

  Children, School, Fighting

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• I think it's important to encourage young people to tell their own stories and to speak openly about their own experiences with the criminal justice system and the experiences of their family. We need to ensure that the classroom environment is a supportive one so that the shame and stigma can be dispelled.

  Michelle Alexander

  Thinking, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it, I think, is stunting the actual intelligence growth of our population. Not our capabilities but our actual intelligence growth because all of the stigma that's attached to people that don't have formal educations as opposed to those who do. But the people that have formal educations have been programmed and indoctrinated in many cases, not in all the disciplines.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Discipline, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

  Amy Lowell

  Myopic, Genius, World

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Skills, Wife

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.

  John Dewey

  Art, Knowledge, Class

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.237, SIU Press

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• I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

  Sam Elliott

  Sex, Want, Tag

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

  Kevin Hart

  White, Black, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Investing, Revulsion

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• The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn to be more flexible, to take advantage of the opportunities in front of them. We can have something to help with in areas like child development or organizations and schools, or maybe even how peoples interact with each other, one to the other. We've taken the work into things like prejudice and stigma, because if we can't solve that we have planes flying into buildings. So it applies broadly because anywhere that a human mind goes these processes go.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Children, Taken, School

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious... if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion magazines.

  Shakira

  Fashion, Magazines, Body

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Gay, Shapes, Just Being

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• I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

  Ziggy Marley

  People, Feel Good, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Talking, People, Community

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, America, Order

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• We can prevent more people from becoming more addicted - that's number one - with prescribing laws and making sure that people can't get too many of these opioids when they are initially prescribed them. Number two is, we have to make sure the millions of people who are already addicted have access to good and effective treatment. Finally, it's critical that we remove stigma and that's why we've made a film, to show that this can happen to anyone.

  Perri Peltz

  People, Film

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.

  Elton John

  Strong, Years, People

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• I would say that we have to explore and find ways to make our game a better game and take care of our players in whatever way possible. Regardless of what other stigmas might be involved, we have to do this because the world of medicine is doing this.

  Pete Carroll

  Player, Games, Medicine

  "Carroll weighs in on medicinal pot" by Dan Graziano, abcnews.go.com. January 27, 2014.

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• For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

  Christian Louboutin

  Stupid, Men, High Heels

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• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

  Matt Damon

  Drama, School, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

  Ezra Miller

  Teenager, Struggle, Healthy

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• Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

  Eric McCormack

  Gay, Modern Family, Bipolar

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