Disability Quotes
304 quotes by 216 authors
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In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement!…
— Holly Near
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I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found,…
— Alexander P. de Seversky
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If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to…
— Tom Cruise
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Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of
— Morgan Freeman
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not…
— Aimee Mullins
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a…
— Aimee Mullins
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The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.
— Clay Aiken
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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.
— Clay Aiken
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A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run…
— Simon Pegg
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There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.
— Danica McKellar
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,
— Laura Linney
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People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that…
— Randy Wayne
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As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea…
— Henry Winkler
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My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes…
— Stephen Hawking
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It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People…
— Stephen Hawking
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I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is…
— Christopher Reeve
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The Presidents proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with…
— Chaka Fattah
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I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all,…
— Chaka Fattah
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Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily…
— Chaka Fattah
Who Wrote These Disability Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 304 Disability Quotes, led by these top contributors: