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Disabled Quotes

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

Itzhak Perlman
Would Be, Accepting, Disabled

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.

Stephen Hawking
Wells, Physically Disabled, Disabled
"Handicapped People and Science" by Stephen Hawking, September, 1984.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng
Civilization, Treats, Disabled

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

Christopher Reeve
Dream, Vision, Disabled

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

Aimee Mullins
Body, Disabled, Prosthetics
"My 12 pairs of legs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Natalie du Toit
Thinking, Able, Disabled

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

Daniel Tammet
Peace, Different, Disabled
Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

Aimee Mullins
Hate, Way, Disabled

Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage

Oscar Pistorius
Mean, Disadvantages, Disabled

Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

Oscar Pistorius
Disadvantages, Disabled

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

Christopher Reeve
Dream, Stills, Disabled
"Man of steel" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2002.

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