Disability Quotes - Page 12

• I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

  Stevie Wonder

  People, World, Continuation

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

  Pauline Oliveros

  People, States, Software

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• There are people with physical disabilities that prevent them from having any hope - in some cases any actual hope and in other cases any practical hope - of marriage. The circumstance of being currently unable to marry, while tragic, is not unique.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Unique, People, Cases

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

  Harriet Martineau

  Wise, Views, Trials

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• I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through.

  Zach Anner

  Skills, May, Rooms

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• 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

  Struggle, Responsibility, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

  Zach Anner

  Drawing, Differences, Community

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

  Bill Shorten

  Jobs, Creating, Ordinary

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• As people live longer, disability becomes more of an issue. And there seems to be more children born with a disability. I don't know if it's true, or if we're just better at diagnosing certain disabilities than in the past.

  Jay Ruderman

  Children, Past, Issues

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• People are starting to realize that the disability community has been disenfranchised and deserves to have its rights recognized, which I see as a positive trend. I don't think it'll be a quick process, but I see more attention being given to it.

  Jay Ruderman

  Thinking, Rights, People

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• The term syndrome generally appears to be a constellation, or collection, of similar traits or behaviors within an individual. So, savants do have sort of a constellation of symptoms, which is characterized by some spectacular skill, or skills, coupled with this massive memory which is grafted on to some underlying disability. So those three conditions quantify, in my mind, the term syndrome.

  Darold Treffert

  Memories, Skills, Mind

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• There will always be people with disabilities. And by my estimation, the scorecard for the way we take care of those who need our help the most, those at the very bottom of that safety net, is pretty dismal. And that has to change.

  William H. Macy

  People, Safety, Way

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• As much as I've been blessed to do, this is for me when I want to do what I really want to do as far as helping people. Obviously helping people with disabilities, I want - my desire is to in my lifetime be a very integral part of getting this country and the world completely accessible to everyone with any disability. There should be nowhere that we can't go, and there should be nothing that we can't do. Considering that we have the disability, whichever one it might be, we will be so on point with being able to do that we need little to no assistance.

  Stevie Wonder

  Country, Blessed, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Simone Weil

  Equality, Degrees, Needs

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gains, Vocation, Turns

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• When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.

  Tom Cruise

  Hurt, Memories, Reading

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• Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Attacking

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• There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.

  Aimee Mullins

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Viruses, Why Not

  "The dead and the quick" by Simon Pegg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2008.

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• There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

  Danica McKellar

  Speech, Complicated, Shame

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• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  Laura San Giacomo

  Son, Talking, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  Laura Linney

  Learning Disability, Written Word, Written

  "Laura Linney: 'Comedy is a way to survive'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.

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• People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability.

  Randy Wayne

  Sea, People, Bugs

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• As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

  Henry Winkler

  Children, Stupid, Math

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• My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

  Stephen Hawking

  Regret, People, Advice

  "Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word". Interview with Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2011.

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