Disability Quotes - Page 14

• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, People, Amputees

  "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

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• You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.

  Lori Borgman

  Mother, Horse, Children

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• I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  Calvin Trillin

  Thinking, Mind, World

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• Barring extreme physical and mental disabilities, each and every one of us is where we are today -- be it poor or wealthy, happy or sad, on the streets or in a condo, in a Mercedes or a rusted-out Pinto -- because of the choices we have made during our lives. It's the choices we have made that put us where we are, not the choices others have made for us.

  Neal Boortz

  Choices, Today, Poor

  Neal Boortz (2001). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, Taylor Trade Pub

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• The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

  Terry Fox

  Basketball, New York, Night

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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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• Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

  Jean Vanier

  People, Profound, Lessons

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.45, Paulist Press

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• A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Growing Up, Shoes

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• One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Father, Doe, Bars

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

  Hugh Herr

  Foundation, Fundamentals, Century

  "The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.

  Nancy Mairs

  Self, Ordinary World, People

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• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Family, Mother, Strong

  "Pelosi: I Never Met 'Anybody Who Liked His or Her Plan'" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

  Eric Shinseki

  Leadership, Integrity, Health

  "Shinseki resigns, but will that improve things at VA hospitals?" by Tom Cohen, Drew Griffin, Scott Bronstein, Nelli Black, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2014.

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• I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.

  Jim Abbott

  Sports, Baseball, Kids

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• Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind to some extent paralyzed; and like those still more degraded by personal bondage she hugs her chains.

  Lucretia Mott

  Long, Hug, Mind

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• The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

  Charles Hazlewood

  People, Perspective, Community

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• The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Years, Numbers, Brain

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Play, Sitting Down, Down And

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, practice a different religion, come from a different culture, or have a disability. If you're different from most of the people you're surrounded by, some people might not be as tolerant as they should be.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  White, Practice, People

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

  George W. Bush

  Work, Health, Reality

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• When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

  Bill Shorten

  Ends, Parliament, Secretary

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

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• I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

  Warwick Davis

  Toilets, Etc, Machines

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• An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

  Bernie Sanders

  Race, America, Promise

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Aug 29, 2015

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