Disabilites Quotes
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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 D. RooseveltI 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 GiacomoI 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)
“Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
-- Emma ThompsonThe 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
"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 WeatherlyDisabilites Quotes
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