Quotes of: Learning-disability Keyword

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

Aimee Mullins

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

John Boyega

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Donald Norman

It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled - based on one occasion out of hundreds.

Gerald Walpin

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Stella Young

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

Johan Cruyff

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

Jared Polis

Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.

Misti Renea Neely

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

Oscar Pistorius

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

Stella Young

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

Stella Young

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Aimee Mullins

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

Helen Hunt

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