Quotes About Stigma

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Once you're a felon you're a target.

Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.

The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should talk about. If you act a little differently you become a target. There is pressure to conform. This is very dangerous.

Young people experiencing homelessness often have a difficult time accessing services, including shelter, medical care, and employment. This is due to the stigma of their housing situation, lack of knowledge of available resources, and a lack of services targeted to young people.

It is the women who get targeted because the society will point fingers at them.

I'm not a tart. I feel like I've been treated like one in the past.

Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'

To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.

HIV/AIDS isn't a top priority for any of the three major LGBT groups in the U.S.: not the HRC, or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), or the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) - who together are somewhat pejoratively known as 'Gay Inc.'

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

So. You're saying my sister's dressed like a prostitute.

No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 38). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.

I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.

But in modern America we often shame the wrong people. Instead of deterring behavior that undermines the common good, shame is too often deployed against people who don't fit in—to ostracize them even further.

Public shaming can also carry a painful stigma. "Ignominy is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death," wrote Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who also sought to put an end to public stocks and whipping posts.