Quotes about Stigma

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

So many people, you know, they're just worried about, you can't say something bad about Obama, not because you actually have a strong stance against his platform, but because that makes you a racist.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

As we all know, mental health matters, while we still have a long way to go, we're starting to see the wheels turning for real and meaningful change. As a parent of young boys, the fact these conversations will be happening at home, in their friendship groups and in the classroom is so important.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

She was made to stand in a garbage can for twelve hours, as the other detainees demanded that she confess her own "homosexual tendencies.

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.