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  • That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

    Source: artsmania.ca
  • The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

    Scott Hamilton (2009). “The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable)”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I make films about people with disabilities as well and I think this question is more relevant in regards to these documentaries where the actual person appears on film. I know these people are proud of who they are and what they are doing with their lives.

    Thinking   People   Proud  
    Source: www.bookbrowse.com
  • The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

  • I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

  • A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

    Real   Drama   People  
  • Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.

    "Elections 2012: Who is Really ‘Pro-Life?’" by Joni Eareckson Tada, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.
  • Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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

  • Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need of charity. It's not about charity, it's about empowerment.

  • I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

    Block   Cutting   Years  
    Source: abilitymagazine.com
  • Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press
  • Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  • Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

    Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.45, Paulist Press
  • They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.

    Two   People   Too Late  
  • Great ideas originate in the muscles.

    Life   Motivation   Work  
  • Know me for my abilities, not my disability.

  • Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.

    Gay   Law   Long  
  • Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

    "Grand Ideas from Within". Book by Janice M. Mcdermott, Joan Stewart (p. 15), 2005.
  • I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!

  • Just put one foot in front of the other.

  • I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

    "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.
  • No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

  • People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

    "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.
  • I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  • People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.

    Sports   People   Want  
  • If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

    Helen Keller (2010). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation
  • The Presidents proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

  • People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

    Dream   People   Shining  
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