People are always afraid of anything different. They are afraid of change,” says Sensai. “It is the same everywhere.

The issue here revolves around the “right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different. Because of this, they discriminate against anyone who has any distinctive characteristic whether...

We do not tolerate discrimination in the workplace. It’s our policy to provide a work environment free of unlawful harassment and discrimination.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33):- fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore,...

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...

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. “The Serbs...

We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology.

We decided a couple of religious-discrimination issues would be at the top of our agenda.

But on the other hand, we do not believe they should be specially targeted for discrimination, either. We have a problem with the approach that would target, specifically, certain people who have a certain behavior.

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes...

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show. I feel so . . .” She searched for the word. “So whole when I’m there.” Once started, the thoughts spilled. “I didn’t plan...

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding...

In early 1970, Newsweek’s editors decided that the new women’s liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women to write the piece.

There’s no legal amount of discrimination we can practice in here in the SU, in Ashland. There is a legal level of discrimination in the military.

In reaction against the age-old slogan, “woman is the weaker vessel,” or the still more offensive, “woman is a divine creature,” we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that “a woman is...

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic...

What we’re dealing with here is discrimination of an American citizen.

Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been...

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Having the liberty to have freedom of choice is the greatest thing that each and everyone of us has because that makes us who we are. Do not however use this as an excuse to...

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. … By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are...

But that doesn’t mean that everyone who brings a racial discrimination case ought to win the case,

Peoples of the world are subject to nuclear discrimination, as many countries possessing nuclear technology are seeking to monopolize this knowledge and deprive the rest of the world from this scientific capacity.

I had people saying ‘it’s all in your head’. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

If human beings are the most intelligent creatures on earth, why is it that the other less intelligent creatures realise themselves in their group of spieces that they are the same despite the difference in...

I wanted to make sure he understands there’s a lot of discrimination in the United States today. We have laws that try to redress that and is he going to be open to the application...

The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to...

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings.

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather […] it responds with ‘benign neglect’ [….] The members of ethnic and national...

Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.

I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

The eternal wave of hate never stops.

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

First, we must see that our negative actions arise due to prejudice and erroneous judgments. The discrimination that labels some as ‘friends’ and others as ‘enemies’ must be perceived as the root of our problems....

The sun showers light to one and all without any discrimination. Similarly, humans should also engage himself in doing works for the benefit of the society.

Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

Public stigmaStereotypeNegative belief about a group (e.g., dangerousness, incompetence, character weakness)PrejudiceAgreement with belief and/or negative emotional reaction (e.g., anger, fear)DiscriminationBehavior response to prejudice (e.g., avoidance, withhold employment and housing opportunities, withhold help)Self-stigmaStereotypeNegative belief about the...

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

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.

Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way...

When you develop your power of discrimination and become fully awake to the indwelling divinity, you will not suffer sorrow nor be subjected to fear.