Stigmatising Quotes

“This government has represented benefits as somehow shameful. The point about universal benefits is that they affirm the value of such social tasks as having children, rearing them, or caring for relatives; they make benefits themselves an expression of collective approval for the endeavour, not begrudged hand-outs, stigmatising the recipients as beggars and failures.”
― Marina Warner, Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs