The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders. — Natalie du Toit Copy Share Image
You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have. — Oscar Pistorius Copy Share Image
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
People with disabilities are capable and deserve the same opportunities as everyone else. — Madeline Stuart Copy Share Image
“...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...” — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Because of my disability I do find that people can be a bit uncomfortable around me, so I've always had one-liners and… — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over. — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's important that people can be themselves and live a normal life that's not defined by a disability. — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
“He discovered that his own reaction to his disability influenced how others reacted, which meant he could control how he was perceived.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity. — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel Meeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicapped Is only a state of mind — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers,… — Susan Hampshire Copy Share Image
I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the… — Lauren Potter Copy Share Image
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right… — Allan Hennessy Copy Share Image
We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stands out for its frank discussion of his… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public… — Ari Ne'eman Copy Share Image
Within the realms of my disability, I was able to be quite independent. — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
“My disability was my justification! It was my excuse for failing to engage with the world.” — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't. — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
I don't see it as a disability. I'm just a normal person, but a bit smaller than everyone else. — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“They said 'specialist children's wards,' But they meant children-killing centers. They said 'final medical assistance' But they meant murder.” — Ann Clare LeZotte Copy Share Image