Top 1200 Physically Disabled Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

I've led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper.

The carer of the disabled person is always in the background. People don't want to hear about the sleaze and the nitty-gritty and the hardship.

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

The FREED Vets Act will make student debt forgiveness for eligible disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future.

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.

When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.

[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.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.

Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

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

When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.

There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in your face.

I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transformation that's going on for me physically... That hasn't been easy. It's been an awesome challenge for me...because so much of how I access character is through my body.

Larry Drake - I love his work... He plays a very disabled character like the role I'm playing.

As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.

We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

Stop ignoring disabled people, we make up 22 per cent of the population. We're here and we're worth listening to.

It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.

I introduced the FREED Vets Act to make student debt forgiveness for disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future, regardless of who is in the White House.

Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.

I would never make fun of anyone who is obviously disabled who cannot defend himself, like Donald Trump.

We know lots of progress is being made, but the industry must do more to help disabled people work both in front of and behind the camera.

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language.

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.

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.

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.

I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.

Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

If you don't like something, change it. My parents expected me to stay in my office job as an administrator at the Co-op because I'm disabled, but I said no and changed my whole life.

It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

My heart goes out to any parents who are being led to believe their kids have a disorder or are disabled.

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

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.

The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman or a child or physically hits a child. When that period of innocence is raped - that person loses something that they can never get it back. To me when innocence is raped, that is the sickest and filthiest thing.

How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.

I am not alone in that I've had times of unemployment - unemployment is huge amongst disabled people.

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

I would love to see disabled people be able to access circuits and access the industry.

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

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.

You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'

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

Disabled people used to be either the good person or the real evil villain. There's no way in between.

I don't think you can only have people with disability talking about the Paralympics. Clare Balding didn't need to be disabled to cover it.

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

I feel that because I'm disabled, I can say a lot more things than able people perhaps couldn't get away with.

Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.