People With Disabilities Quotes

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

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Disability

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• New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Technology, Government

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• People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

  Mary McAleese

  Dream, People, Shining

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• People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.

  Karni Liddell

  Sports, People, Want

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• Know me for my abilities, not my disability.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Disability, Know Me, Knows

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• Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need of charity. It's not about charity, it's about empowerment.

  Jay Ruderman

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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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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• Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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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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• It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, People, Complaining

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

  Stevie Wonder

  People, World, Disability

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

  Edward Barbanell

  People, Disability

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Independent, Technology

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• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong

  "Attitude : The Power of Positivity". Book by Dr Kenneth Morton, p.56, 2011.

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

  Mark Haddon

  Light, Difficult Situations, People

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• I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

  Winston Churchill

  School, Race, Discouraged

  "A Roving Commission".

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• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

  Susan Boyle

  People, Brain, Want

  "The 10 most intriguing people of 2009" by Jay Kernis, www.cnn.com.

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• People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

  Aimee Mullins

  Struggle, People, Insecurity

  "The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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