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“It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.”

“Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.”

Veteran Chips Disabled Bargaining

Author:Jim Bridenstine

“I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?”

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Author:Ellen Goodman

“As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?”

Ifs Men Littles Speak Walks Silent Disabled Paranoid Crumbs Power Man

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.”

Believe Country Passion I Believe Television Amount Devil Raises Election Disabled Protestants Good God Evangelists Theocracy Mentally Disabled

Author:Gore Vidal

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

Civilization Treats Disabled

Author:Chen Guangcheng

“Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system.”

Mean Able Young Belief Black White Poor Rich Particular Female Males Irrelevant Disabled Belief Systems Black Or White Rich Or Poor

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“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.”

Ifs Stills Hero Fit Uplifting Disability Autism Encouraging Disabled Being Different Underdog Words Of Encouragement Physically Disabled Mentally Disabled

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.”

Knows Feels Persons Lost Conditions Ordinary Description Disabled Depressed Person

Author:Andrew Solomon

“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.”

Ends States Whole Periods Disease Aim Disabled Extending End Of Life Frailty Decrepit

Author:Aubrey de Grey

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

Children Decision Risk Concern Complicated Testing Disabled Miscarriage Disabled Children

Author:Emily Oster

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

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Book:The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)

Source: The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)

“That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.”

Men Trying Believe Mother Desire Father Voice Knowing Share Achievement Hearing Myth Aspiration Mastery Competence Disabled

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.”

Art Age Growth Behinds Progress Fine Art Is Sympathy Disabled Comprehension Fine Arts Physically Disabled

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.”

War Accidents Disability Anti War Demonstration Disabled Hitchhiking

Author:Simi Linton

“Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.”

People Ifs Needs Years Seems Might Given New York Profound Luxury Bother Items Disabled Taxi Luxury Items

Author:Simi Linton

“The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.”

Trying Years Home Young Careers Roles Movement Mom Picks Feminist Young Women Disabled Stay At Home Feminist Movement Stay At Home Mom Mentally Disabled

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.”

Painful Nuts Contemplating Disabled Painful Things Physically Disabled Paraplegics

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.”

I Can Film Development Travel Meetings Funny Travel Disabled Gary

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.”

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Author:Katy Butler

“Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.”

Ideas School Humanity Left Behinds Generations Style Conversation Evidence Settling Interpretation Absurdity Distrust Left Behind Disabled Disrespect Postmodernism Muster

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.”

Honest Evolution Being Honest Narrative Allies Not Interested Refuge Composition Disabled Collages

Book:Reality Hunger

Source: Reality Hunger

“It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.”

Facts Opinion Objectives Subjective Disabled Amputees

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?”

People Thinking Cutting Taxes Good Things Like Me Payment Disabled Tax Cuts

Author:Mark Haddon

“So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.”

Said Economic Program Sick Medicine Dare Rings Virtuous Catastrophe Assistance Compensation Elderly Disabled Alarms Unemployed Civil Society Pension Looming

Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.”

People Jobs Lasts Social Term Economy Security Months Understood Checks Disability Social Security Disabled Dependency New Job

Author:Mark Steyn

“We have people across this country who are scared to death. Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists.”

People Ifs Mean Country America Scared Terrorist Former California Target Disabled Prosecutor

Author:Chris Christie

“I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.”

Thinking Want Children Government Care Poor Effort Pay Pieces Six Percent Disabled Child Care Disabled Children

Author:Edward Zigler

“The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.”

States Produce Burden Welfare Germany Disabled Entitlement Welfare State

Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“So, I think it's important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why I've been critical of Donald Trump. Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that's not a sign of strength. Making fun of disabled people... We're never going to win elections if we don't have a more broader unifying message.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Use Winning Language Fun Trump Messages Election Careful Critical Be Careful Disabled Unifying Disparaging

Author:Jeb Bush

“I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan and Iraq are being overwhelmed by those fleeing the conflict in Syria, often with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Many are severely tortured - abused women and their traumatized children whose husbands, fathers, and brothers have been killed or permanently disabled.”

“These two guys [Donald Trump and Chris Christie] kinds find each other. They love each other. They were playing let`s spend the night together when I turned the TV in the hotel today. I was like oh, my goodness.But it`s like the worst buddy movie. They degrade women. They steal candy from orphans. They mock the disabled. They pick on teachers. It`s frightening to watch.”

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Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign political incorrectness. It's clearly intentional. He'd have to be a complete moron just to coincidentally insult Mexicans, and women, and disabled people, and Muslims. So clearly he's using it as a vote winner. But I think with comedians there's a responsibility.”

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Author:Sacha Baron Cohen

“Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or in hiding, it would lead me to think that probably it is one of the less centralized groups that might be the greatest danger.”

Thinking Has Beens Seems Might Running Given Groups Danger Core Destroyed Als Hiding Disabled Al Qaeda Leading Me

Author:Graham T. Allison

“There have been so many examples of highly qualified judges of enormous integrity who lost their positions because they were in fact disabled from speaking out to defend a controversial opinion.”

Has Beens Facts Lost Opinion Example Position Judging Integrity Enormous Qualified Disabled Controversial Speaking Out

Author:Deborah Rhode

“If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.”

“If we're to honor the heritage of our country, whether it be in terms of religious freedom, whether it be in terms of truly protecting life, protecting not just the unborn but who comes next, the infirm, the elderly, the maimed, the disabled - that's who comes next as we get into the budget crunch of taking care of those people in the years - I believe we ought to have that debate honest and openly.”

People Ifs Years Believe Country Care Next I Believe Term Religious Honest Ought Honor Debate Our Country Budgets Heritage Elderly Disabled Unborn Religious Freedom Crunch

Author:Tom Coburn

“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.”

“Were money no object, we could have a dedicated door-opener-and-closer on all trains. But in the real world, train drivers in different countries have a wide range of responsibilities. On rural routes in Scandinavia, for example, you might find the driver selling you the ticket as well as operating the doors, helping disabled passengers, handling parcels and driving the train.”

“I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids.”

Heart I Can Helping Kids School Law Poor Clinton South Native Graduates Disabled Law School Yale Help The Poor

Author:Donna Brazile

“I was a disabled child. So, people made fun of me, don't pretend like this never happens. But at the same time, I never cried about it. I never got sad about it.”

People Children Made Happens Fun Cried Disabled Disabled Children

Author:Brad Williams

“A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.”

Deals Vulnerable Judged Disabled Unborn

Author:Mike Pence

“I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast in her society because she was disabled, to someone who picked herself from that despair and elevated herself within that community, and now that society accepting her as much as they formerly rejected her. People identified with that journey, overcoming an obstacle, but still triumphing.”

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Author:Roger Ross Williams

“We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television.”

Knows Said Done Television Trump Reporters Disabled

Author:Hillary Clinton

“If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.”

People Ifs Years Lost Months Prove Six Legs Russia Afghanistan Six Months Limbs Disabled Register

Author:Duncan Green

“As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.”

People Suffering Administration Barack Usual Disabled Poorest

Author:Nat Hentoff

“[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.”

Thinking Children Book Use Kids Dies House Cases Happened Madness Bills Memoir Senate Execution Delay Infant Exes Disabled Syndromes Euphemism Summary Down Syndrome Disabled Children

Author:Nat Hentoff

“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.”

Kids Hate Left Jokes Treated Insult My Best Friend Disabled Gloves Left Out

Author:Jeff Ross

“[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.”

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Author:Marva Collins

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