Yemi Osinbajo

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

Nigerian Politician

Joel Grey

I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.

American Actor

Sarah Ferguson

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

English Royalty

Kenya Barris

I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.

American Producer

Xavier Dolan

My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.

Canadian Actor

Ian Somerhalder

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

Israel Houghton

The risk of being honest can lead to people ostracizing you. It's easier to cling to the persona, the stage, the reputation that people want to see.

American Musician

Terry Sanford

I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.

American Politician

Gad Saad

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

Canadian Scientist

Claudette Colvin

American Activist

Ostracize often involves a group collectively avoiding someone, not just one person's action.

Social Rejection

Being ostracized can have a long-term impact on someone's social standing and mental health.

Lasting Effect

Ostracization doesn't always mean physical separation; it can be a silent treatment within the same space.

Not Only Physical

Ostracizing someone often involves a decision or agreement by those in power or the majority.

Authority Involvement

Ostracism can be used as a tool to suppress dissent and enforce conformity in a society or group.

Political Tool

Ostracize can be a form of passive-aggressive behavior to express disapproval without confrontation.

Passive Aggression

Ostracism isn't always obvious; it can be signaled through body language or lack of communication.

Subtle Signs

 But sometimes we're too weak. That's what happened with my wife and I. And this range of acceptable behaviors -- when we stay within our range, we're rewarded. When we step outside that range, we get punished in a variety of ways. We get dismissed or demeaned or even ostracized. Or we lose that raise or that promotion or that deal.

How to speak up for...

 So I documented these stories of survival of you know, people who had survived persecution from around the world, people who have survived imprisonment and violent attack, and attempted murder, and rape, people who had been ostracized by their family members, who've fled their countries,

"Where Love Is Illegal":...

 Breaking your silence is never easy, and depending on where you are in the world, it can even be deadly to speak out about rape. I realize that even the most traumatic event of my life is still a testament to my privilege, because I can talk about it without getting ostracized,

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 and interpret things as his reason for being, as his reason for existing. And he faced huge adversity in doing so. These tragedies and relationships that disintegrated, and governments that didn't support him or ostracized him as a Jew, that forced him out of the country.

Einstein's Escape from...

 birthing canal that happens to women after prolonged labor and can render her incontinent we're in suffering fistula in communities are often ostracized but Esther has incorporated herself back into the community and is an active member with outreach programs

Images of strength and...

 we are likely to lose the camaraderie of our coworkers. Disbelieved, ostracized, faced with under-the-radar bullying. You know the kind when you walk into a room and everyone stops talking? We It's not my responsibility to say anything.

How to be an upstander...

 fighting for other people's homes. Whether that was for women who were severely abused, or ostracized, or for indigenous people living under crazy regimes, or refugees without a nation. And it was my one particular friendship

She Summited Each...

 now a sanctuary until the crowd dispersed. But, his suffering didn't end there. They went back to their families, who, in turn, ostracized them. Buje fell ill, and a relative came to him and said, "God should take your life

 Think about it. In a world of total brain transparency, who would dare have a politically dissident thought? Or a creative one? I worry that people will self-censor in fear of being ostracized by society,

When technology can read...

 I picked up a book, and it was the most agonizing time of my life, trying to learn how to read, the ostracizing from my family, the homeys. It was rough, man.

Ostracize

To exclude someone from a society or group.

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To banish or send away.

Often appears as...

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To deliberately avoid or ignore.

Often appears as...

Social Rejection

Lasting Effect

Not Only Physical

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