Stigma Quotes

Stigma Quote of the day

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

There isa stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence is a very common and often very treatable condition.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

I want to change the cycle of stigma and prejudice that destroys lives all over the world every day. Until we can get in front of people and awaken them to the idea that this is not acceptable.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

There is no doubt that the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will wipe off this stigma [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

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

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

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

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

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

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.

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

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.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.

What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I’ve attached to my name?

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.

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

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.