"The
message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and
without disabilities."
-- Clay Aiken
“Congress
acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease
are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”
-- William J. Brennan, Jr.
| 'New
information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for
people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the
beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use
of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and
the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to
everyone.” ~ Bill
Clinton |  |
“There are
so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not
necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more
on art, writing, or music.”
-- Jim Davis quotes (American Actor. 1915-1981)
It is unacceptable
that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes
to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and
monuments.
-- Dick
Durbin
If you're
an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're
not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
-- Steve Guttenberg
The only disability
in life is a bad attitude.”
-- Scott Hamilton
"It
is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or
understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst
of all you know that you are not just stupid."
-- Susan Hampshire
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a
sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases,
or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to
try to make them better.
-- Tom Harkin
“We
are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled
and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
-- Edward Heath
I choose not
to place "DIS", in my ability.
-- Robert M. Hensel
We,
the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability,
but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a
handicap, but as a well intact human being.
-- Robert M. Hensel
Limitations
only go so far.
-- Robert M. Hensel
Placing
one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond
my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this
warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't
won.
-- Robert M. Hensel
| |
"The moral test of government
is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life . . . the children; those who
are in the twilight of life . . . the elderly; and those who are in the shadow
of life . . . the sick . . . the needy . . . and the disabled." -- Hubert
Humphrey |
“The white, the Hispanic,
the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer,
the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old,
the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.” -- Jesse
Jackson |  |
And for a very special
group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the
disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy
to give them one.
-- Carl Karcher
You
can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms
and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do
otherwise.
-- Jack LaLanne
"Disability
is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by
someone."
-- Martina Navratilova
Disabilites
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