Disability Quotes - Page 8

• I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies. And they said, "Leave policies? Women just leave and they don't come back." And I said, "But I want to come back." They said, "We have no leave policy." And then they said, "Why don't you apply for disability?" Well, having a child is not a disability.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Children, Office, Remember

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of otherness, confusion, isolation, watchfulness, longing. One becomes keenly aware of the impersonality of brute matter, but at the same time there is often a raw, mistrustful desire for gentleness, connection.

  Laurie Sheck

  Confusion, Desire, Complacency

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Kids, Painful, Deformity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Back in the 1950s, we did a study in Framingham called the Framingham Study.This needs to be done for developmental disabilities. It's outrageous that people have had to live with this heartache for so long without having a definitive answer.

  Jill Stein

  Long, People, Heartache

  Source: www.politico.com

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• On the other hand, there are plenty of red flags that link developmental disabilities to things like lead and mercury and pesticides and air pollution and certain kinds of unhealthy foods, and that's what's begging for a comprehensive and definitive study. We should have a long-term prospectus study that looks at all, you know, exposures, medications, life habits, etc., pollution, and traces people over a period of many years, starting with when - starting with their parents, from when they are healthy. This is how we learned what causes heart disease.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Hands, Should Have

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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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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• When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.

  Herieth Paul

  Teacher, Children, Moving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

  Hal Duncan

  Skins, Identity, Prejudice

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Epilepsy, Two, Autism

  "What is Autism?". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• When Donald Trump says a distinguished judge born in Indiana can't do his job because of his Mexican heritage, or he mocks a reporter with disabilities, or calls women pigs, it goes against everything we stand for.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Pigs, Judging

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I want people to feel inspired to reach out and be inclusive and supportive of others in their community who might be facing any kind of challenge, whether it is a health issue or a disability.

  Avril Lavigne

  Issues, People, Community

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• Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.

  Tom Coburn

  Tests, Sometimes, Womb

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. He moved on to denigrating John McCain's heroism during the Vietnam War. He has gone after people with disabilities. He has said Muslims should be kept out of our country. He certainly has gone after individual women in the media, in the political arena.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, War, Opportunity

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

  Greg Walloch

  People, Perception, Overcoming

  "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their day-to-day drudgery of disability routines; but when hurting families place themselves under the shower of God's mercy, suddenly the clouds part. They realize there's hope, life, and even joy beyond their suffering.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Disappointment, Clouds

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I never respond to Donald Trump's personal insults about me. I could care less what he says about me. I'm going to respond when he calls a judge unqualified because of his Mexican heritage, or mocks a reporter with a disability, or says demeaning things about women. And the list goes on.

  Hillary Clinton

  Judging, Mexican, Goes On

  Source: www.9news.com

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• It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles - wrong habits of eating and drinking - we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives.

  Lester Roloff

  Drinking, Roots, Medicine

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• The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Government, Years

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• Katherine Johnson never complained, it just was what it was. She just said, "I just wanted to go to work and do my numbers." And she stopped right there. I think about that as a Black woman in Hollywood when I'm asked about diversity. I hate when people say diversity because the first thing you jump to is Black and white. When you talk about diversity, you're talking about women being hired in front of and behind the camera. You are talking about people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community...so I hate when people think about diversity.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Hate, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• A troubled life beats having no life at all

  Richard M. Cohen

  Beats

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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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