479 Quotes About Disability
- Author Steven Magee
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The government and insurance companies are routinely robbing the disabled.
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- Author Charles Dickens
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Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
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- Author Robert M. Hensel
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I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
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- Author Kim Edwards
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What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by the book. But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try?
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- Author Cynthia Lord
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- Author Hiedi Thomas Jennifer Worth
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What's it like here?There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.
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- Author Randolph Bourne
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Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.
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- Author Susannah Cahalan
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there’s nothing worse than seeing pity radiating from the eyes of a former lover.
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- Author Haben Girma
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Navigating ableist situations is like traversing the muckiest mud pit. Ableism runs so deep in our society that most ableists don't recognize their actions as ableist. They coat ableism in sweetness, then expect applause for their "good" deeds. Attempts to explain the ableism behind the "good deeds" get brushed aside as sensitive, angry, and ungrateful.
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