Disability Quotes - Page 15

• physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

  Nancy Mairs

  Talking, Disease, Embodiment

  Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

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• The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Perfect, Sides

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.71, Madison & Adams

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• Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.

  Robert Greene

  Teacher, Makeup, Order

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.278, Profile Books

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• My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  People, Goal, Church

  "Joni Eareckson Tada on Wilberforce Award, 'Better Off Dead Than Disabled' Mentality". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Government, Elderly, People

  "Elections 2012: Who is Really ‘Pro-Life?’" by Joni Eareckson Tada, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

  Loretta Young

  School, Reason, Dyslexia

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• I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

  Jason Alexander

  School, Kids, Son

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• ....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

  Joey Reiman

  Hero, Athlete, Olympics

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.36, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

  Jim Abbott

  Believe, Perspective, Ifs

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• Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, Years, Community

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• Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Independent, Technology

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• Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Inspirational, Patient, Save A Life

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• Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

  Toni Morrison

  Serious, Ifs

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Equality, Individual

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.201, Best Books on

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• Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

  Zach Anner

  Want, Way, Our Relationship

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

  Zach Anner

  Hero, Heart, School

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.69, Om Books International

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• The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Rights, Firsts, Ada

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• The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

  Oscar Pistorius

  Attitude, Bad Attitude, Life Is

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• It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

  John Irving

  Skills, People, Suffering

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• Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

  Charles Dickens

  Good Friend, Trying, Reason

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.328

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• His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ignorance, Progress

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.271, Random House

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• Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Girl, Courage

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• The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

  Ali Khamenei

  Political, Plot, Winner

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• But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Pain, Winning, Moments

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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