215 quotes found
“When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.”
“It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.”
“Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritual free-fall." When people make such remarks, such appalling judgements, they never include themse...”
“Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know it too. Reading our own writing, the intended interpretation falls easily into place, guided by o...”
“One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.”
“The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.”
“Do you suffer fromcallous-narrow-minded biases?Im humanely secondhand embarrassed for you.”
“Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicida...”
“No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.”
“1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.”
“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.”
“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.”
“This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.”
“Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.”
“Public stigma Stereotype Negative belief about a group (e.g., dangerousness, incompetence, character weakness)Prejudice Agreement with belief and/or negative emotional reaction (e.g., anger, fear)D...”
“I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.”
“Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.”
“Satan will make your own principles and inclinations to betray you.”
“He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.”
