Disability Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Hair, Age, Causes

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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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• When everyone else says you can't, determination says,'YES YOU CAN.'

  Robert M. Hensel

  Determination, Yes You Can

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• I choose not to place "DIS," in my ability.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Autism, Ability, Ability To Choose

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.

  Kate Bornstein

  Acceptance, Differences, Tolerance

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• I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

  Nick Vujicic

  Bitter, Mets, Persons

  Twitter post from Dec 21, 2015

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• To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

  George C. Lorimer

  Acceptance, Self, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 169), 1895.

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• So many times we say that we can't serve God because we aren't whatever is needed. We're not talented enough or smart enough or whatever. But if you are in covenant with Jesus Christ, He is responsible for covering your weaknesses, for being your strength. He will give you His abilities for your disabilities!

  Kay Arthur

  Strength, Christian, Jesus

  Kay Arthur (1994). “Beloved: From God's Heart to Yours”, Harvest House Pub

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• If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.

  Zach Anner

  Opportunity, Perfect, Personality

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Able, Ability, Disabled

  "Oscar Pistorius: The bullet in the chamber" by Gary Morley and Robyn Curnow, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

  Warwick Davis

  Worry, People, World

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• Having a disability changes your whole life, not just your attitude.

  Bob Dole

  Attitude, Whole Life, Whole

  Ability Magazine Interview, www.abilitymagazine.com.

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• Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

  Nick Vujicic

  Legs, Arms, Bigger

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2016

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• Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

  Stephen Hawking

  Needs, Obstacles

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• Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

  Marla Runyan

  Attitude, People, Negativity

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• No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Who We Are, Defining, Dictionary

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  Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Giving Up, Mean, Don't Give Up

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• Disability can be no handicap.

  Stephen Hawking

  Handicaps

  "Stephen Hawking Reveals What He REALLY Thought Of Eddie Redmayne In 'The Theory Of Everything". The Huffington Post UK Interview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. August 5, 2015.

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• A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.

  Michael J. Fox

  Reality, People, Disease

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

  Jessa Gamble

  Unconscious, Ultimate

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• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

  Helen Keller

  Stupid, Mean, Bores You

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Inspirational, Society, Inability

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