Disability Quotes - Page 3

• I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

  Andrew Greeley

  Writing, Fingers, Terrible

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• Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

  Mary Bono

  Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Growing

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• People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

  Major Owens

  Running, People, Use

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• We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.

  Carl Karcher

  Members, Crew, Employee

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• They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.

  Gregory Hines

  Two, People, Too Late

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• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  Ike Skelton

  Goal, Research, Disease

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• There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

  Jim Davis

  Art, Writing, Loss

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• You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise.

  Jack LaLanne

  Moving, People, Legs

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• Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Horse, Believe

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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• It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

  Dick Durbin

  Veterans Day, Illinois, Speech

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• We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

  Janet Reno

  Building, Passages, Policy

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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Aggravation, Flow, Disease

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• Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  David Ogilvy

  Enemy, Merit, Advertising

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• When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

  Lewis Thomas

  Reading, Mean, Priorities

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• I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

  Aimee Mullins

  Issues, Interest, Cerebral Palsy

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

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• Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

  Marg Helgenberger

  Sports, Life Lesson, Lessons

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• Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

  Peter Kay

  People, Crutches

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• And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

  Carl Karcher

  Jobs, Hands, People

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• The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.

  Clay Aiken

  Kids, Important, Messages

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• The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Native American, Gay

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

  Edward Heath

  Children, Sick, Unions

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• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Inexperience

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Limitations only go so far.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Limitation

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• With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

  Ernest Holmes

  Vision, Obstacles, Obstruction

  Ernest Holmes, Michael Beckwith (2010). “How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library”, p.228, Health Communications, Inc.

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  Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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