479 Quotes About Disability

We did not evolve to go to space, so when it comes to space travel, we are all disabled," says ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. "What brings us from being disabled to go to space to being able to go to space is just technology.

The COVID-19 lock down did not affect me, as I had already been on the disability lock down for five years.

Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I am reminded of the millions of disabled people that were denied their disability benefits in order to fund it.

The Disability system is really bad and the Workers Compensation system for occupational diseases is far worse!

Bad backs are an occupational disease of nursing.

The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies.

There is often something beautiful, there is always something awful, in the spectacle of a a person who has lost one of his faculties, a faculty he never questioned until it was gone, and who struggles to recover it. Yet people remain people, on crutches or indeed on deathbeds....

A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind must not be and when the mind is in crises, the body must not be. Such is tenacity and nimbleness

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.