Disability Quotes · Page 17

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

— Charles Dickens

You don't have to have a disability to be different.

— Kim Peek

My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

— Rick Hansen

The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded -…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.

— Patrick Henry Hughes

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.

— Viktoria Modesta

“The government disability program has developed a wide range of feeble excuses to deny you your earned benefits.”

— Steven Magee

What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end…

— Catherine Mayer

“What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by…

— Kim Edwards

Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner…

— Robert M. Hensel

So many times we say that we can't serve God because we aren't whatever is needed. We're not talented enough or smart…

— Kay Arthur

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

— Annette Funicello

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

— Stephen Hawking

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

— Stella Young

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

— Cynthia Nixon

“Finally, especially in the case of medical-response canines and those that serve handlers with invisible disabilities, it's not merely the necessity of…

— Susannah Charleson

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

— Stevie Wonder

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

— John H. Johnson

There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that…

— William O. Douglas

“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

Lack of skill of communication makes oneself handicapped of sharing views and knowledge.

— Andrew Guzaldo

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

— Malcolm Gladwell

There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have…

— Darold Treffert

I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

— Arthur Bradford

“Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also die…

— Israelmore Ayivor