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• These two guys [Donald Trump and Chris Christie] kinds find each other. They love each other. They were playing let`s spend the night together when I turned the TV in the hotel today. I was like oh, my goodness.But it`s like the worst buddy movie. They degrade women. They steal candy from orphans. They mock the disabled. They pick on teachers. It`s frightening to watch.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Teacher, Night, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign political incorrectness. It's clearly intentional. He'd have to be a complete moron just to coincidentally insult Mexicans, and women, and disabled people, and Muslims. So clearly he's using it as a vote winner. But I think with comedians there's a responsibility.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or in hiding, it would lead me to think that probably it is one of the less centralized groups that might be the greatest danger.

  Graham T. Allison

  Running, Thinking, Groups

  "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

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• If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

  Dick Durbin

  Children, Law, America

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• If we're to honor the heritage of our country, whether it be in terms of religious freedom, whether it be in terms of truly protecting life, protecting not just the unborn but who comes next, the infirm, the elderly, the maimed, the disabled - that's who comes next as we get into the budget crunch of taking care of those people in the years - I believe we ought to have that debate honest and openly.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Religious, Believe

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Thinking, Gun

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Were money no object, we could have a dedicated door-opener-and-closer on all trains. But in the real world, train drivers in different countries have a wide range of responsibilities. On rural routes in Scandinavia, for example, you might find the driver selling you the ticket as well as operating the doors, helping disabled passengers, handling parcels and driving the train.

  Simon Calder

  Country, Real, Responsibility

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids.

  Donna Brazile

  Heart, School, Kids

  "'This Week' Transcript: Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week" with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.

  Deborah Rhode

  Integrity, Judging, Example

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

  Mike Pence

  Vulnerable, Deals, Unborn

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2016

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• I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.

  Edward Zigler

  Children, Thinking, Government

  "The Progressive Interview: Edward Zigler". Interview with Ruth Conniff, December 17, 2010.

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• I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast in her society because she was disabled, to someone who picked herself from that despair and elevated herself within that community, and now that society accepting her as much as they formerly rejected her. People identified with that journey, overcoming an obstacle, but still triumphing.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Journey, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television.

  Hillary Clinton

  Done, Television, Trump

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• If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.

  Duncan Green

  Russia, Years, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Nat Hentoff

  People, Suffering, Administration

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• [Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.

  Nat Hentoff

  Children, Book, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• So, I think it's important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why I've been critical of Donald Trump. Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that's not a sign of strength. Making fun of disabled people... We're never going to win elections if we don't have a more broader unifying message.

  Jeb Bush

  Fun, Thinking, Winning

  Jeb Bush at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, January 28, 2016.

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• My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

  John Boyega

  Dad, Firsts, Language

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

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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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• 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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• 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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