Quotes About Stigmatize

People like to pigeonhole you.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

In the polyglot Upper Peninsula of Michigan calling a man, say, an Irishman is rarely an effort to demean or stigmatize him

Just as a popular strand of feminism turned from celebrating women to vilifying men, so a portion of black studies started attacking people who were not black. A discipline intended to de-stigmatize began to re-stigmatize

I know many people who are suspicious of diagnoses—they think of them as labels that reduce or stigmatize. I knew, already, that a diagnosis was not going to answer all my questions. But I craved a diagnosis because it is a form of understanding.

We as a society have many prejudices, but there are very few of our fellow citizens we stigmatize and judge less charitably than what we consider to be "large" women.

It is significant that while there is a word profiteer to stigmatize those who make allegedly excessive profits, there is no such word as wageer - or losseer.

Unlike many other countries around the world, this great nation we live in supports and does not stigmatize entrepreneurial risk-taking.

The left's goal here is to stigmatize resistance as discrimination and to ruthlessly punish dissenters so that everyone is suitably warned.

As Susan Sontag pointedly observes in Illness as Metaphor, illnesses we don't understand are frequently viewed as manifestations of inner states. The less we understand about a disease or a symptom, the more we psychologize, and often stigmatize, it.