Disability Quotes - Page 13

• It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

  Lauren Potter

  People, Role Models, Roles

  "Actors with Down syndrome in more films, TV; 'Glee' star Lauren Potter says 'we're just like anybody else'" by Danielle Jones-Wesley, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.

  Patrick Henry Hughes

  Color, Hair, Sight

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• People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability.

  Randy Wayne

  Sea, People, Bugs

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• When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

  Willard Wigan

  School, Kids, Skills

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Attacking

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• When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.

  Tom Cruise

  Hurt, Memories, Reading

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• I have yet to hear anyone afflicted with the "gun control" disability dial 9-1-1 and specify, "Now please be sure to send the kind of cops who are disarmed. If you can't do that, we'd rather you not send anyone at all to stop the men who are holding my daughter at knifepoint, because in this household we don't believe that guns ever solve anything."

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Daughter, Believe, Gun

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• I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Children, Class, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

  Harris L Coulter

  Drinking, Aqueducts, Autism

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• My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.

  Stephen Hawking

  Regret, People, Advice

  "Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word". Interview with Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Essentials, Aspect, Accessibility

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• We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.

  Michel Sidibe

  Running, Sex, People

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• I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

  Ann Bancroft

  School, Thinking, People

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• As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

  Henry Winkler

  Children, Stupid, Math

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• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  Laura Linney

  Learning Disability, Written Word, Written

  "Laura Linney: 'Comedy is a way to survive'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.

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• When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

  Aimee Mullins

  Attitude, Men, Mad

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

  Jane Chen

  Baby, Years, Risk

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• Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gains, Vocation, Turns

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• Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Overcoming, Needs

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• Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Law, Long

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• There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.

  William O. Douglas

  Race, Color, White

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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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• Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

  Sean Patrick Maloney

  Safety, Valleys, Dams

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• I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

  Nick Vujicic

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If YOU fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are you going to finish strong?

  Nick Vujicic

  Strong, Trying, Matter

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