Disabled Quotes - Page 5

• Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Elderly, Unborn Child

  "Pope Francis, one year later -- calling us to a deeper faith" By Maureen M. Ferguson, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

  Rhonda Byrne

  Jobs, Government, People

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• I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

  David Prowse

  Rights, Fundraising, Campaigns

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• I'm not disabled, I'm Differently Able!

  Montel Williams

  Epilepsy, Inspire, Able

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• I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

  Marva Collins

  Teaching, Learning, Inability

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• She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Country, Children

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Children, College

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• The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

  Michael Dukakis

  Congratulations, Long, People

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• We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

  Stella Young

  Morning, Lying, Names

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• The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

  Mario Cuomo

  Children, Pain, Struggle

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.

  Tom Dunne

  Beach, Book, Home

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• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Inexperience

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult.

  Jeff Ross

  Hate, Kids, My Best Friend

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.

  Daniel Dennett

  School, Ideas, Disrespect

  "Liberals and the New McCarthyism" by Derrick Jensen, www.counterpunch.org. August 10, 2015.

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• I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.

  Barbara Boxer

  Writing, People, Looks

  Source: progressive.org

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• It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Sympathy, Art, Growth

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• The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mom, Home, Years

  Source: rutherford.org

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• Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.

  David E. Sorensen

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

  Jimmy Carr

  Race, Different, World

  "Jimmy Carr defended offensive routines days before Down's Syndrome joke". www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2011.

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• Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

  Grace Napolitano

  Security Systems, Community, Important

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• Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Writing, Government

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• I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

  Natalie du Toit

  Thinking, Able

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• I'm Palestinian, I'm disabled, I'm female and I live in New Jersey.

  Maysoon Zayid

  Female, Jersey, Palestinian

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• In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Children, Fall, Caring

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• I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

  Stella Young

  Joy, Political, Doe

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