Handicapped Quotes

• Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

  Scott Adams

  Children, Reason, Dilbert

  "'Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams draws feminist outrage" by Jeff Labrecque, www.ew.com. March 30, 2011.

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• In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

  Henri Nouwen

  Poverty, Mentally Handicapped

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• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Business, Stupid

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Men, Copying

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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• After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Children, Firsts, Married

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• 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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• Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Disability

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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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• Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.

  Clea DuVall

  Taken, Men, Space

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• The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  World Government, Evil, Mind

  The Elks Magazine, August 1956.

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• The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.

  Bess Truman

  Hands

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• Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

  B. C. Forbes

  Heart, People, Joy

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• Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

  Denis Leary

  Space, People, Evil

  Song: Asshole

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• The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

  Jim Breithaupt

  Technology, Government, Turtles

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• This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, War, Home

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

  Nathan McCall

  White, People, Justice

  Nathan McCall (2011). “Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America”, p.352, Vintage

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• A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

  William Dunbar

  Men, Feet, Doe

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• We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

  Danah Zohar

  Running, Children, Cancer

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• I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Understanding

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• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  Auberon Waugh

  Emotional, Feelings, Overcoming

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Basketball, Player, Achievement

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• It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Double Bass, Sculpture, Baggage

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1956). “Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”

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• My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

  Kelly Reilly

  Believe, Humility, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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