"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.
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'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
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“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
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"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
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“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 |
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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
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"We
know that equality of individual ability has never existed
and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity
still must be sought."
-- Franklin
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I have
a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he
does not walk independently, sit independently or speak.
He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate
for him when he was 3 years old.
-- Laura San Giacomo
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, has a way of taking a man pretty much at
his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed
and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others.
But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around
him comes easily.
-- Alexander de Seversky (1894 - 1974)
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“Being
disabled should not mean being disqualified from having
access to every aspect of life.
-- Emma
Thompson
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The
greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that
I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.
-- Bill Toomey
"Kindness
is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind
can see."
-- Mark
Twain |
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"The
more I read and the more I talked to other parents of children
with disabilities and normal children, the more I found
that feelings and emotions about children are very much
the same in all families. The accident of illness or disability
serves only to intensify feelings and emotions, not to change
them."
-- Judith Weatherly
