Disabled Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

  Aimee Mullins

  Hate, Way, Handicapped

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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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• 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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• 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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• The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, People, Support

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Elderly, Law

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• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Athlete, Able, Can Do

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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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• Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Ghetto, Average, Black

  Theodore J. Kaczynski (2010). “Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a.”, p.41, Feral House

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• Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Father, Passion, Player

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.173, A&C Black

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• We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

  Lee Pearson

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Jesus, Dying

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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