Disabled Quotes - Page 8

• The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care -- the basics that we need to live. In short, 'chained CPI' is just a fancy way to say 'cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled, and orphans.'

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Cutting, Numbers

  "Elizabeth Warren ‘Shocked’ At White House Plan To Cut Social Security With Chained CPI" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

  John Elder Robison

  Building Up, Weakness, World

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• Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Brilliant, Exciting

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  War, Leader, Political

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• The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

  Terry Fox

  Basketball, New York, Night

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• As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Reflection, Men, Disability

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• ....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

  Joey Reiman

  Hero, Athlete, Olympics

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.36, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.

  Katy Butler

  Home, Independent, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage

  Oscar Pistorius

  Mean, Disadvantages

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