Disability Rights Quotes

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

I always say I'm one of the most normal abnormal people you'll ever meet. I get embarrassed about how many medals I've won, and I get angry when people presume that because you're gay you've got to wear pink and stilettos and camp it up, or that if you're disabled you should act like a victim and not have a life.

I would love to switch on my TV and see a disabled person talking about something they are genuinely interested in or acting out a part that doesn't just focus on their impairment.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

My best friend is disabled. There's nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves. That's the insult.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told, You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

… three generations of imbeciles are enough.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.

A notably deformed child shall be killed immediately.

I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.

Accessible design is good design.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

A dreadfully deformed child shall be killed.

We must ensure full access to all reproductive health services, including abortion. We must also provide for our aging population, ensuring our parents and grandparents have the care they need. We must defend Medicare, expand Social Security, and provide tax credits for families who care for their elders and loved ones with disabilities.

No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

I know easyJet is not luxury, but we certainly don't charge for wheelchairs or take away essentials. You have to make the passengers reasonably comfy for the sake of health.