Consequences Quote by Barbara Jordan

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those…

— Helen Keller

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the…

— Barbara Jordan

When I was a teenager, I was first exposed to a saying: 'Deaf people can do anything except hear.' But that quote has really…

— Lauren Ridloff

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

— Marlee Matlin

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that…

— Marlee Matlin

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

— Marlee Matlin

Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the…

— Julian Simon

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting…

— Ken Kesey

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

— Harriet Martineau

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

— Marlee Matlin

“Being deaf is not a weakness or it shouldn’t be seen as one and that’s what I wanted to get across that day. It’s…

— Melyssa Winchester

Culturally deaf people don't want to be fixed. They don't feel impaired. They feel complete.

— Paul Raci