Quotes of: Disabled Keyword

For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.

Giles Duley

Philippe: My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It's having to be without her.

The Intouchables

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

Aimee Mullins

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.

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Peter Singer

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

Emily Oster

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

Stella Young

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

Oscar Pistorius

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

Stella Young

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

Stella Young

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

Stella Young

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Malcolm Gladwell

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

Marlee Matlin

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

Andy Behrman

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

Craig Thompson

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Jane Chen

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Millicent Fawcett

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

Aubrey de Grey

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.

Max Heindel

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

Bill Shorten