Disabled Quotes

• Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

  Martina Navratilova

  Autism, Perception, Needs

  "Grand Ideas from Within". Book by Janice M. Mcdermott, Joan Stewart (p. 15), 2005.

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• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

  Scott Hamilton (2009). “The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

  Emma Thompson

  Inspiration, Mean, Disability

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• Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Would Be, Accepting, Asks

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• How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Civilization, Treats

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• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

  Kate Chopin

  Air, Wings, Broken

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.155, Kate Chopin

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• I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Block, Cutting, Years

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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  I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love.

  Nick Vujicic

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Nov 20, 2014

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• Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Disadvantages

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• I was a disabled child. So, people made fun of me, don't pretend like this never happens. But at the same time, I never cried about it. I never got sad about it.

  Brad Williams

  Children, Fun, People

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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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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• I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

  Nick Vujicic

  Unique, Opportunity, Challenges

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.2, WaterBrook

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• Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

  Jim Bridenstine

  Veteran, Chips, Bargaining

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2014

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• Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

  Aimee Mullins

  Body, Prosthetics

  "My 12 pairs of legs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

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• We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

  Helen Hunt

  Way, Imperfect, Reason

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• Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

  Theresa May

  Retirement, Children, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doubt, Genius, Should

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• It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Common Humanity, Diversity, People

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• I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

  Heather Mills

  Thinking, Records, World

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Reading, Pride

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• I believe that if you are bringing a child into the world, you should be willing to accept them in any reality. Whether they are Black, White, Asian, have four fingers, are disabled, gay….that the only wish should be for a happy and healthy baby.

  Dianna Agron

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.

  Aimee Mullins

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

  Elyn Saks

  School, Law, Doctors

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• Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or in hiding, it would lead me to think that probably it is one of the less centralized groups that might be the greatest danger.

  Graham T. Allison

  Running, Thinking, Groups

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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