Disability Quotes - Page 7

• Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

  Nalini Singh

  Boys, Suffering, Excuse

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Branded by Fire”, p.68, Penguin

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• My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Eye, Ability

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

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Believe, Asthma

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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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• A troubled life beats having no life at all

  Richard M. Cohen

  Beats

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• In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

  Bernard Jensen

  Lying, Years, Roots

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• Your greatest asset is your paycheck. Disability insurance protects you and your family if you are unable to work by providing income which will help pay your bills and take care of your family. It's just as important as life insurance.

  Dave Ramsey

  Important, Income, Care

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• I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.

  William J. Clinton

  Hands, People, Challenges

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.

  John Donvan

  Autism, Different, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives.

  Arthur Bradford

  Thinking, People, Proud

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mother, Eye, Son

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• I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.

  Arthur Bradford

  Summer, Men, Eight

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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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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• What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother
  Teresa possessed a love for the poor; Billy Graham, a gift for preaching; and Joni Eareckson
  Tada, a disability. What did they have in common? A willingness to let God use whatever they
  had, even when it didn't seem very useful. If you will assess what you have to offer in terms
  of your time, your treasure, and your talents, you will have a better understanding of how you
  might uniquely serve.

  Richard Stearns

  Letting Go, Mother, Understanding

  Richard Stearns (2009). “The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World”, p.259, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

  Stephen Hawking

  Discovery, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Hawking: Is He All He's Cracked Up To Be?" by Michael D. Lemonick, time.com. February 3, 2014.

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• This is an exciting opportunity to positively impact the lives of Canadian children with a disability by providing a more direct route to help them reach their full potential.

  Milos Raonic

  Children, Opportunity, Impact

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• Forget what you know about disability.

  Viktoria Modesta

  Forget, Knows

  "Amputee Pop Star Viktoria Modesta Doesn't Care If You're Uncomfortable". Interview with Alyssa Bailey, www.elle.com. December 22, 2014.

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• I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.

  Viktoria Modesta

  Titles, World, Modern

  "Viktoria Modesta: Bionic Woman". Interview with Jazz Monroe, www.dazeddigital.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Expectations, Low Expectations, Lows

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

  Bill Austin

  Believe, I Believe, Ability

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• We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Age, Intense, Capacity

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.6, Knopf

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• There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do them just as well. I've learned that it's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. And I've learned that we have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.

  Jim Abbott

  People, Challenges, I've Learned

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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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• 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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