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I think what this lawsuit does is say that there are some officers in the department that have some misunderstanding about the African-American community and those misconceptions, and those stereotypes need to be addressed.

Lawrence Williamson

I think one of the biggest things that we want to come out of that is a general dialogue getting editors to understand that these stereotypes are offensive and getting people on campus to recognize that these are issues that deeply affect us as well.

Priya Prasad

Those of us who have always considered ourselves 'liberal' and 'tolerant' have discovered the prejudices and stereotypes which each of us harbor. This has certainly been a learning experience for us, and we are still learning.

Michael Cooper

We came here knowing that it wouldn't work, but there are still a lot of people who hold stereotypes and we want to keep fighting.

Fernando Lopez

There has always been a closeness between Muslims and Jews and we are trying to show that those stereotypes that Muslims and Jews don't get along are wrong.

Michael Berdine

There are very few African-American nuclear operators. It's important to me to break the stereotypes of what we can or can't do.

Rob Howard

360 degrees of personality traits. If characters in pop culture are not reflecting ... women over 40, it makes it even easier for employers to express biases ? to put you into a little box based on gender stereotypes.

Janice Grackin

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth.

Jacques Ellul

The ADA prohibits denying services to people with disabilities based on unjustified fears and stereotypes. Equip for Equality is committed to challenging discriminatory practices and policies that exclude people with HIV and other disabilities.

Barry Taylor

I wasn't interested in avoiding stereotypes or clichs. Because I think that's a fool's errand. You go around and around trying to make that happen. It was a question of accepting or acknowledging these clichs . . . and saying, yes, these are types. But then exploring these types and moving them toward human-hood.

Phil Morrison

I am not opposed to all military activities, like in Hurricane Katrina and natural disasters like that, ... But the recruiting process, I think, can be dishonest and some of the violent acts in the military have not been addressed by the (mainstream) news. A lot of problems could be solved if (the military) started teaching tolerance and getting rid of stereotypes.

Peter Young

Disability is a form of cultural diversity. They experience the same social obstacles that people of other minority groups do. Our goal is to let go of the stereotypes. Look at the person, not the disability.

Pamela Rohland

I'm not going to play something just because of stereotypes, ... I'm going to play it because I love it.

Justin Upton

Maybe this time around in reaching back to borrow from old movies, maybe Lucas or his people had trouble separating stereotypes from the sort of things that would help strengthen the movie.

Michael Dyson

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

Joan Chen

We really want to get rid of the stereotypes between the Notre Dame women and the Saint Mary's women. I haven't experienced [the tension] myself but some girls said they did, especially at Domerfest.

Jennifer Gray

There are a lot of stereotypes from non-Greeks. I think they see movies like 'Animal House' and think it's all parties and poor academics.

Justin Mason

The guidance recognizes that race and ethnicity may properly play a role in terrorist identification and suppression, but only under narrow circumstances permitted by our nation's laws and the Constitution of the United States, ... The policy guidance emphasizes that even in the national security context, reliance on mere generalized racial or ethnic stereotypes remains forbidden.

Ralph Boyd

Education is the great equalizer in society. It can be the thing that lifts (students) out of their predicaments - they could be first generation immigrants, it could be poverty, or overcoming the stereotypes associated with race and ethnicity.

Michael Welch

The Beijing Olympics will be a good opportunity for the athletes of Asia to show their abilities, ... I don't believe that Asian athletes are inferior to athletes from North America and Europe in the track sprint events. I'm a good example. It's important to wipe away existing stereotypes. I hope Japanese athletes will also make their best efforts.

Liu Xiang

Our number one priority is battling discrimination against Arab-Americans, and changing the stereotypes, letting people know we're not terrorists, we're not all evil. We're human beings just like you.

Hani Khoury

We found that stereotypes were activated in all subjects, regardless of whether they had consumed alcohol. But, only the subjects who had consumed alcohol had difficulty controlling their race-related responses once those stereotypes were activated.

Bruce Bartholow

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Siouxsie Sioux

One of the stereotypes I feel in society ... is that most black men are violent.

Lawrence Scully

Those are stereotypes the sport has, in my opinion, outgrown. It's really a shame and an injustice to some degree that some people have attempted to label it in that way.

Steve Stenersen

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

Some of the biggest battles, recognition of the Palestinians as a real people and ending stereotypes were achieved. We now can refer to this moment as the date when it became possible to have a different discussion about Palestinians.

James Zogby

For centuries, we have been under very false stereotypes and misconceptions about what causes anorexia nervosa.

Cynthia M. Bulik

It certainly dispels stereotypes about who needs food, like the conventional stereotype being homeless people. It is actually a lot of working families.

Lee Mercer

You recognize that it's a stereotype, and you do your best to break people of those stereotypes.

Josh Beekman

A lot of the stereotypes went away after Sept. 11 of us being rude and … unwelcoming. For the first time, our police officers and our firefighters were a tourist attraction.

Christyne Nicholas

Images of violence confirm stereotypes that people have of the Muslim world. People on both sides of the issue have acted very irresponsibly, which has caused the escalation of the issue.

Rabiah Ahmed

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

Mary Daly

I'm all about breaking stereotypes.

Daddy Yankee

If girls are interested, they have the potential to go further, ... There are still lingering stereotypes that affect girls in middle school, and they lose interest in the subjects.

Sally Ride

One of the things is to break stereotypes of what an environmentalist is. When I was growing up it was seen as weird, tree huggers.

Tony Hale

Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechanism for combating ageist stereotypes.

Dominic Abrams

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

David Cronenberg

First and foremost, he's just one heck of a nice guy, ... Secondly, he's just pretty sharp. A lot of people have stereotypes about football players. Mike Bass is a very intelligent man. He did an outstanding job as appropriations director. Probably to this day, he has a better grasp of the state budget process than most people who work in Springfield.

Bill Black

Many jurors are forced to muddle through this life-and-death decision-making process confused about their duty and mired in inaccurate media-based stereotypes. To truly improve the reliability and fairness of the decision-making process in capital cases, overarching reforms would be needed to break down the network of social psychological forces that are at work.

Craig Haney

The theme of the posters is 'Maybe history got things a little too straight,' ... We think it's important to make people aware of accomplished, successful people who don't fit stereotypes of an LGBT person. They humanize LGBT issues.

Mickey Hart

It doesn't affect their story, it's what they weave into them. Otherwise, they fall victim to stigmas and stereotypes because they're moving so quickly. It's not designed to make us seem any better than we are, but some of them will just pull up [information from] the Internet.

Reyn Bowman

All Greek houses face the stereotypes of being the partying type. But this isn't what we are about; we are about sisterhood and positive relationships.

Cara Snyder

Everybody is looking for the next guy who puts up big numbers in the pro-style offense. If they're going to go that route and develop a quarterback in that regard, they're just more likely to go in another direction. ... It's a combination of things. But at some point, yes, stereotypes do come in.

Harry Edwards

This important conference gives diverse Jews from around the world a chance to celebrate their ties to the Jewish people and Jewish faith. We will offer a visual rebuttal to common stereotypes and an opportunity to celebrate strength through diversity -- an ideal that has relevance to all Americans.

Gary Tobin

It's a shame. Instead of offering constructive advice and assistance, a United States congressman is wasting our time with stereotypes and accusations, ... Louisiana will rebuild with or without Mr. Tancredo's help.

Brian Richardson

Programs such as this almost always prove to be ineffective in gathering information on possible terrorists. Even though they are created with the best of intentions, they only serve to reinforce stereotypes and cause innocent people to be subjected to government scrutiny.

Christine Link

Literary and political work helps people to ged rid of stereotypes.

Amos Oz

There are plenty of well-dressed people now going to prison for defrauding their shareholders, ... We have to be careful about making assumptions about folks simply on the way they look. That's a dangerous thing to do because it's how we start to create stereotypes.

Peter Roby

(The award) breaks the stereotypes Colorado has of Greeks in Colorado and at CSU. Greeks should be recognized for the positive things we do on campus and this is a great way to start the year.

Melanie Huntrods

It's humanizing. He allows people to emerge from the stereotypes, and to play with those stereotypes themselves.

Fintan O'toole

It is not only racist, it is offensive. It perpetrates so many stereotypes that have been labeled against the African-American community.

Lawrence Williamson

In the evidence it came out that one of the flight attendants stated that Ms. Carrington reminded her of a terrorist, and in our views she was the victim of profiling stereotypes and discrimination.

Enrique Moreno

I didn't give consent, and it was something that was forced. There are always these stereotypes that perpetrators are men and sometimes we don't think of individuals of the same sex.

Elen Semran

I just worry that it reinforces some of the negative stereotypes about workers in the public service: that they're bored and not interested in their work.

Ed Cashman