When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“An average teenager today, if he or she could time-travel back to 1950, would have had an IQ of 118. If the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
“Like other kinds of intelligence, the storyteller's is partly natural, partly trained. It is composed of several qualities, most of which, in… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“I’ve got to work out the rule. If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“Kennedy, who had a mentally ill sister, also moved more actively than presidential predecessors to advance the cause of mental health. In… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
If you have Food in your fridge, Clothes on your body A roof over your head and A place 2 sleep U… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“At this point, scientists have identified over 300 specific genes that play a direct role in mental retardation. That link between genes… — Hunter Maats Copy Share Image
“With this intermarriage comes the increased risk of congenital disorders. After decades of inbreeding, Colorado City and Hildale have the world’s greatest… — Karen Stollznow Copy Share Image
If you have Food in your fridge, Clothes on your body, A roof over your head and A place 2 sleep, You're… — Ritzy Copy Share Image
“once a willful child who, like many willful children, felt most secure at home, has grown into an extravagantly social and nonconforming… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end,… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children - children with mental retardation - can be… — Eunice Kennedy Shriver Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
