Best Disability Quotes

#1. If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

S. Jay Olshansky

#2. An exhausted parent can't provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

Charisse Montgomery

#3. The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.

Stella Young

#4. Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

Bill Shorten

#5. disability rights and to demand full access. Ed Roberts and others at the University of California Berkeley in the 1960s forced the university to admit them, to provide access to classes and other activities, and to provide the support

Julie K. Silver

#6. Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

Nick Vujicic

#7. The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

Viktoria Modesta

#8. I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

Jackie Walorski

#9. Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Martina Navratilova

#10. What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.

J. David Smith

#11. I think when you have a disability people are always putting limitations on you, telling you, even in a nice way, what you can't do. My attitude to that has always been: You can't tell me that. I'll show you.

Louise Sauvage

#12. We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

Amy Purdy

#13. He'd killed people, lots of them if he cared to count. Which he didn't.

Jackie Williams

#14. Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Christopher Eccleston

#15. Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren't guy and girl. We weren't damaged and terminal. We were just now.

Elizabeth Langston

#16. A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.

Brian Spellman

#17. My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

Rick Hansen

#18. For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

Stella Young