Francois Rabelais Quotes

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

I was ostracized by my community.

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

While all of us have been impoverished spiritually by this stigma upon our nation, minority groups of color such as the Blacks, the American Indians, and the Mexican-Americans have borne the brunt of this malady

An ethnic minority is much more vulnerable when it is accused of being a fifth column.

9/11. For the West the attack on New York's World Trade Centre conjured up a terrifying new enemy: Islamic fundamentalism. For Muslims it appeared to open the floodgates to a new wave of hatred and discrimination. Suddenly, it seemed, racists had license to attack them, police to harass them, politicians and journalists to revile their religion.

If they are laughing at you, how can they bludgeon you to death?

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

Like many others who stand out, I was picked on.

I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object of mockery and disgust in your average sitcom or movie or person at school.