Disabled Quotes - Page 3

• America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

  John Olver

  Emotional, Battle Wounds, Iraq

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• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Mother, Teenage

  "Empathy and the Supreme Court" by Jonah Goldberg, articles.latimes.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

  Bill Nighy

  Men, Kind, Shirts

  "Actor Bill Nighy On Career, 'Marigold Hotel'". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

  Aimee Mullins

  Amputees, Asking, Knees

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• For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

  Aimee Mullins

  Children, Growing Up, Community

  "'You just don't look disabled'". Interview with Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2010.

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• I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Travel, Development, Film

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• If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Encouraging, Uplifting, Hero

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

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• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Get Better, Administration, Facts

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

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• It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

  Dick Durbin

  Veterans Day, Illinois, Speech

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• I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

  Chuck Close

  Thinking, Doing Me, Ability

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• I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

  Christopher Reeve

  Dream, Stills

  "Man of steel" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2002.

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• Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

  Ann Richards

  Country, Believe, Play

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

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• If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.

  Stephen Hawking

  Wells, Physically Disabled, Ifs

  "Handicapped People and Science" by Stephen Hawking, September, 1984.

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• Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren’t trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Men, Phones

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• That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

  John Green

  Team, Grace, Roaring

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.115, Penguin

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• Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Sorry, School

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Oct 28, 2011

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• The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Simple, Tears

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• Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.

  Lynne Truss

  Gay, Issues, Black

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• My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.

  Charlaine Harris

  Brother, Men, Giving

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.9, Penguin

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• I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

  Tucker Max

  Kids, Mature, Rate

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

  Jesse Ventura

  Thinking, Decision, Drug

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• The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

  Bill Toomey

  Athlete, Accomplishment, Feelings

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• The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

  Jon Stewart

  Golf, Men, Guy

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• There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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