Negative Stereotypes Quotes:

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

- Barack Obama

topic: Responsibility, Fighting, Religion, Cairo, Trojan Horse

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

- Barack Obama

topic: Islam, Three, Firsts, Muslim Faith, Muslim World

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

- Genevieve Gorder

topic: Beautiful, Country, Thinking, Northerners, Negative Stereotypes

I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say, "This is what I am: a comedian, a show host, a writer." It will still always be part of the conversation and people will want to focus on it because there is a culture that is so embedded that if you have a disability, you're someone to be either admired just for living, or be pitied for having to struggle.

- Zach Anner

topic: Struggle, Responsibility, People, Negative Stereotypes

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

- David R. Mains

topic: Christian, Religious, Attitude, Negative Stereotypes

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

- Jane Rule

source: Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

topic: Political, Way, Oppression, Negative Stereotypes

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.

- Eddie Gibbs

topic: Jesus, Thinking, Church, Watergate, Negative Stereotypes

When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

- Julie Zeilinger

source: "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

topic: Negative Stereotypes

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

- Malcolm Gladwell

source: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

topic: Smart, School, Simple, Inner City Schools, Prestigious

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

- Bell Hooks

topic: Fashion, White, Black, Categorization, Black Males

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

- Danica McKellar

topic: Fun, Math, Empowering, Negative Stereotypes

Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.

- Robert Griffin III

topic: Running, Moon, Thinking, Negative Stereotypes