Disability Quotes · Page 9

Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Lots of disabled people don't want to be magically cured, they just want a fair crack at life.

— Alex Brooker

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

— Stella Young

Most disabled people get used to a certain level of abuse.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Children With Special Needs need your love and support not sympathy.

— Mohd Uved

Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

— Marla Runyan

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

— Emma Thompson

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

— Oscar Pistorius

“The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless…

— Eli Clare

Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.

— Jameela Jamil

“If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at…

— T.C. Slonaker

In a relationship we are not supposed to behave alike NO, that why we are different my disability could be your ability,…

— Cyril Chinwuba

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to…

— Anonymous

I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a…

— Marla Runyan

'The Simpsons' appearances were great fun. But I don't take them too seriously. I think 'The Simpsons' have treated my disability responsibly.

— Stephen Hawking

My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to…

— Zach Anner

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement…

— Chaka Fattah

I don't get out of bed every day to play to win a tennis tournament, I honestly don't. I do it because…

— Dylan Alcott

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of…

— Aimee Mullins

“He said that my problem was that I was perfectly healthy and had the illusion that I would be able bodied forever.…

— James C. Coyne

Life is simple and we make it complicated, Love the ones you forgot long before and Forgot the ones you hate long…

— Nishan Panwar

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can…

— Jim Davis

Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need…

— Jay Ruderman

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after…

— Augusten Burroughs

The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only…

— Howard Zinn

When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this…

— Zach Anner

I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I…

— Hillary Clinton

“The columnist gives these words to the longings of an 11-year-old he meets with Tourette's syndrome: "Wisdom is encoded in our common…

— George will

“I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically…

— Jodi Picoult

You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only…

— Matthew Lillard

When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then…

— Tom Cruise

Creating one unified body in addressing the issue of disability will help the disabled.

— Victor Banerjee

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

— Erik Weihenmayer

Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

— Jason Winston George

I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.

— Bethany Hamilton

I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.

— Bill Austin

We have so few opportunities in the media to explore disability.

— Liz Carr

“You're not allowed to have legs and not use them. Dance.”

— Dianna Hardy

Dyslexia is a hidden disability. Not many people take it seriously.

— Jay Blades