Able Quote by Nelson Mandela

We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more…

— Timothy Shriver

I want to adopt a child or a baby with an intellectual disability one day. I mean, that's in the distant future, but that's…

— Brooklyn Decker

I hope that as a professional snowboarder, Olympian, and now, a Global Ambassador for Special Olympics, I will be able to change perceptions about…

— Hannah Teter

I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts…

— Lauren Potter

Our loved ones and neighbors with intellectual disabilities and autism deserve to live with dignity and the supports they need to succeed.

— Josh Shapiro

Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated…

— Gerald Fischbach

“The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and…

— Wolf Wolfensberger

Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way…

— Timothy Shriver

“What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.”

— Anonymous

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

— Kim Edwards

I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

— Hillary Clinton

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are…

— Earl Blumenauer