Country Quote by Paul Raci

So that is a shift I've seen from growing up: watching my parents feel oppressed by the hearing man, to now deaf people being…

— Paul Raci

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world…

— Viggo Mortensen

“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say, 'Once you…

— Ilhan Omar

When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it…

— Jack Jason

How must that feel to any Deaf person, especially a culturally Deaf person, who hears nothing? Who goes through life, living their life here…

— Paul Raci

I have to think that we all have - at one time or another - felt that our own voice was silenced or under-valued.…

— Mary C. Gentile

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that…

— Stephanie Beacham

I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of my lovely…

— Kathy Burke

As you know, my father was for the inclusiveness and the betterment of society and the world. Certainly we recognize that there are diverse…

— Bernice King

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak…

— Curtis Jackson

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write…

— Jack Jason