Disability Quotes - Page 4

• It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

  Marlee Matlin

  Crazy, Autism, Madness

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• I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won

  Robert M. Hensel

  Men, Reaching Beyond, Missions

  Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Respect, Inspiration, Loss

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• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

  Tom Harkin

  America, People, Sick

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• Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

  Herman Cain

  Softball, Sports, Fun

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• A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

  David R. Brower

  Clubs, Pressure, Resignation

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• Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

  John Donne

  Men, Old Man, Chastity

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.28

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• Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Long, Needs, Middle Of Nowhere

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• PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Philosophy, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

  Bill Toomey

  Athlete, Accomplishment, Feelings

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• The only true disability is a crushed spirit

  Aimee Mullins

  Spirit, Crushed

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• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  Vinton Cerf

  Web Content, Overcoming, Different

  "Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled" by Judy Heim, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2000.

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• You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.

  Matthew Lillard

  Glasses, Years, Validation

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I don't have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Different, Ability

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• There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

  John Hope Bryant

  Motivational, Depressing, Money

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

  Chaka Fattah

  People, African American, Benefits

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• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Safety, Important, Age

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• For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

  Annette Funicello

  Doe, Way, Wheelchairs

  Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks

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• Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Elderly, Cost, Care

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• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  Major Owens

  Country, People, Giving

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• There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

  Major Owens

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Portraits, Faces

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• I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

  Clay Aiken

  School, Kids, Opportunity

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