Disability Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.

  Patrick Henry Hughes

  Color, Hair, Sight

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• Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom.

  Mathew Staver

  Religious, Children, School

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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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• 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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• Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

  Robert Winston

  Pain, People, Underestimate

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• Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a television set and wishing they had the courage to roll over the parapet of a high bridge? I bet there are millions of us.

  Alasdair Gray

  Home, Bridges, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

  Charles Templeton

  Faith, Christian, Doe

  Charles Templeton (1955). “Life Looks Up”, New York : Harper

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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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• 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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• In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive.

  Jean Driscoll

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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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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• 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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• 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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• Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.

  Timothy Shriver

  Kids, Skills, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• My concerts consist of black, white, Korean - everybody. And the age group is so broad, from kids to great-grandparents. I have a lot of people with disabilities who come to my show as well. I personally move them to the front of the line because the lines for my autograph signings are so long. I make sure everybody has a good time at my show.

  Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

  Moving, Kids, White

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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