“I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.” ThreeLearningTeachingStudentsVictimDecadesInabilityDisabled Author:Marva Collins
“She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.” LoveChildrenCountryUseAgeDiesLanguageVoiceAdultsTongueConvincedAbsenceEsteemIndifferenceGuidanceDevicesMakersAbandonedUsersProvidingBulletsDisabledDemiseCarelessnessGrapplingExpressing Love Author:Toni Morrison
“There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.” KnowsFactsHugeAmountAdministrationGet BetterVeteranDisabled Author:R. Lee Ermey
“There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that child should not live, when killing the newborn baby is not at all wrong ... not like killing the chimpanzee would be.” ThinkingShouldChildrenWould BeParentExampleCollegeBabyCircumstancesKillingDisabledNewbornObnoxiousChimpanzeesNewborn Baby Author:Peter Singer
“The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.” PeopleLongNationsStudentsVictoryDeserveUniversityEducatedCongratulationsDisabledNotableDeafnessOverdueGallaudet Author:Michael Dukakis
“We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.” PeopleWorldWantRememberLyingNamesMorningBedLowsExpectationsHonestlyDisabilityExceptionalDisabledLow Expectations Author:Stella Young
“The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.” MenChildrenLittlesProblemMightPainStruggleRocksHungerOur FutureBostonRetiredDisabledBuffaloLittle Rock Author:Mario Cuomo
“I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.” IfsKindBookHomeAbleFilmLostComputerGloryGardenThanksFranceBeachBridgesStolenTanksDisabledEuroGamingBunkersNormandyReplicaNorth AfricaPegasus Author:Tom Dunne
“Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.” PeopleInspirationalNeedsHumansPersonsAcceptingTechnologyEnvironmentAcceptanceBrokenLimitsBuiltInnovationLimitationDisabilityTechnologicalDisabledBuilt Environment Author:Hugh Herr
“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.” KnowsChildrenPersonsHelpingJobsOvercomingSizeVersionsSomedayDisabilityDisabledSalmonInexperience Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.” IfsWorldWantWellsDifferentRaceFineJokesDisabilityDisabledDifferent Races Author:Jimmy Carr