Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say,… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
“Gather the wheelchairs in a circle, and then summon the cripples. Would anybody care for a glass of discrimination?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
More people need to be proud of their disability instead of shying away from it, because as soon as I became proud… — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't think you can only have people with disability talking about the Paralympics. Clare Balding didn't need to be disabled to… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we… — Viktoria Modesta Copy Share Image
There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw… — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability. — Anil Ravipudi Copy Share Image
No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your… — Anne Ford Copy Share Image
I think here in the U.S., we have a hard time accepting disabilities. That's why I think it's really good to share… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
We need people to go to work. If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work.… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I have a few friends who are confined to wheelchairs for access and mobility. I don't want to always be looking down… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently,… — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
You can be broke and be awesome. You can be in a wheelchair and be awesome. You can be homeless and be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I've been involved with disability activities for over 40 years. I have done programs with several disabled children and involving them makes… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
I've always felt comfortable on the ball, and I don't know why people are so surprised when you can control it well.… — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
“He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
I want to get to a point where we can have guys like me in a film and I'm just there. Where… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The strong, ferocious wind just made the chill worse, and as it blew around me, electric bursts of pain shot through my… — Jennifer Starzec Copy Share Image
“I was truly shocked at what I found when I researched why I could not get my government disability payments.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities -… — Kathleen Blanco Copy Share Image
Not really what you can do, others can either. Not really what you can't do, neither can others. — Voeun Tivea Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice,… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
What I do know is that disabled people shouldn't be responsible for curing non-disabled people of their ignorance. — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
My disability makes me emotional, but it also makes me laugh; the two are not mutually exclusive and I'm comfortable doing both.… — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
“The government follows a business model of enriching healthy workers and depletion of assets from the sick and disabled.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
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