Disability Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

  Arthur Bradford

  People, Fit, Unusual

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Strong, People, Educate

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• Every disability is imagined. Every achievement is an experience.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Achievement

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• I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Positivity, God's Plan, Plans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.

  Karni Liddell

  Sports, People, Want

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• I think when you have a disability people are always putting limitations on you, telling you, even in a nice way, what you can't do. My attitude to that has always been: You can't tell me that. I'll show you.

  Louise Sauvage

  Sports, Attitude, Nice

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• Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.

  Hugh Herr

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Technology

  "How Do You Reinvent Yourself After a Near-Death Experience?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 19, 2014.

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• Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

  Jean Driscoll

  Leadership, Sports, Hair

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• I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.

  Bill Austin

  Believe, I Believe, Ability

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• When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.

  Teri Garr

  Real, Thinking, People

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• It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

  Ralph Maxwell

  Art, Junk, Disease

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• The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

  Jay Weatherill

  Government, Together, Needs

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• The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

  Ron White

  Smart, School, Mean

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• These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Technology, Able, Today

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• The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

  Jimmy Carter

  Commitment, Age, Income

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• To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

  Ann Plato

  Ignorance, Important, Branches

  Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.35, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

  Betsey Johnson

  Mean, Special, Dresses

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• And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Believe, Asthma

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• It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step toward eliminating many of the hardships resulting from old age, disability, or the death of the family wage-earner. A nation's strength lies in the well-being of its people. The Social Security program plays an important part in providing for families, children, and older persons in time of stress, but it cannot remain static. Changes in our population, in our working habits, and in our standard of living require constant revision.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Stress, Lying

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961".

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• A troubled life beats having no life at all

  Richard M. Cohen

  Beats

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• The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

  Jared Polis

  Strong, Jobs, Children

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• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

  Paul A. Offit

  Heart, Blood, Vaccines

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• The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not “one of us”? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.

  Ari Ne'eman

  Religious, Simple, White

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