479 Quotes About Disability

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

The reality of the USA for people who are disabled and are unable to be awarded government disability is that it is a living nightmare.

Eligibility for government disability payments for many sickened people only exists on paper, it does not exist in reality.

The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.

Next to God, Family is the best thing.

The government is in the business of ruining the lives of the majority of the disabled.

The government is in the business of sending large numbers of the disabled into extreme poverty.

Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part of the planetary _we_. The cosmopolitan _we_ is not grounded in a monolithic sameness but in a constant alterity and _ethical singularity_ of each individual human person regardless of one's national origin and belonging, religious affiliation, gender, race and ethnicity, class ability, or sexuality.