501 Quotes About Bias
- Author Bill Clinton
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Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
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- Author Ruby Wax
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This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
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- Author Glenn Close
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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.
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- Author Michael Lewis
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Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
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- Author Sally Graham
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I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.
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- Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.
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- Author Stephen L. Carter
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Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others.
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- Author Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
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We don't lack the truth or knowledge, we often ignore them. That's where the word IGNORe-ANCE comes from
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