Disabilities Quotes

“If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.”
― Temple Grandin

“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities.”
― Marlee Matlin

“Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.”
― Ray Charles

“The message I'll share...is that inclusion is extremely important for kids with and without disabilities.”
― Clay Aiken

“I want the word Autism to provoke an image of a wonderful and unique person.”
― Amanda Baggs

“I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.”
― Susan Boyle

“There are hundreds of ways we accommodate physical disabilities--or at least understand them. We get angry when people fail to recognize the need for thoughtful and compassionate assistance when it comes to the physically disabled, but because mental disabilities aren't visible in the same way, we tend to be dismissive of the needs of the disabled and quick to judge their deficits and failures.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.”
― Susan Hampshire

“All along I have the answer, it's written in my face, this is neither bad luck nor curse, but a show of God's grace. I may sometimes know why, I may sometimes feel doubt, but I'm not here to fit in, I was born to stand out.”
― Darius Andaya, I Too Can Be Special!

“Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities.”
― Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

“Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.”
― Robert M. Hensel

“Behind the disability, we have a heart and a mind.”
― Matthew Kenslow

“When you can't hear, you learn to listen.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“There is no such thing as a disability, and we say diffability, because we know you are all different, and possess different abilities.”
― Troian Anderson, The Light of Winter

“As that appalling ableist Paul Steinberg said in the nineteen thirties, ‘A city cannot operate to its full potential if it has to cater for a number of defective individuals'.”
― BH Mckechnie, The Last Question

“Married couples who talk about having children worry about changing messy diapers. Couples who have children just change messy diapers without thinking twice about it. Small problems have a way of shrinking to nothing when you love someone.”
― Philip Gonzalez and Leonore Fleischer

“Dammit. Forgot my clothes. Again. My brain truly is the Bermuda triangle. Info comes in and poof, it vanishes. I have excellent recall for the oddest things. Mating rituals? Check. Football stats? Locked and loaded. Movie quotes? Branded in my skull. My classes at Braxton? Freaking ghost town with tumbleweeds blowing through it. That plane has flown over thr triangle and disappeard.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“We are all Differently the Same.”
― Darren Hobden, We Are all Differently the Same: The Teachings & Insights From A Memory Of Prior Life

“Doctors couldn't figure out why I had trouble walking as a child, nor could they figure out why I was able to begin walking and, eventually, running. I think of it as a reminder that all of our bodies are different - - and so are our experiences with disabilities. -- Fauja Singh”
― Simran Jeet Singh, Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon

“You learn to read people by the way they act ... When people shy away from Doug, I think, Oh, they have so much to learn. You see, the disabled person has no problem interacting with them. They're the ones with the problem.”
― Cheri Fuller, Extraordinary Kids: Nurturing and Championing Your Child With Special Needs

“I'm depressed because the people I love are dead. I don't think my deafness has anything to do with that.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“We incessantly bemoan our disabilities as cruel curses that have unfairly beset us, which effectively blocks their infinitely greater ability to bless us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our most devastating disabilities wholly harnessed in the service of our calling are transformed into the greatest possibilities in the conquering of that calling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Simple, organized layouts and predictable navigation patterns support learners with cognitive disabilities in processing information and completing tasks.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“To me, the inaccessibility of most places sent the message that people with disabilities weren't welcome unless they were willing to adapt.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“Accepting your disability is a part of accepting yourself.”
― Madi Kudlacz

“A protest without a practical objective is meaningless. You can't join the movement for the thrill of the cause.”
― Michael C. Haymes

“You once told me that you can't remember who you want to be,' Memphis said. She came in close, like the day we had first met. 'There are always moments in life when we lose ourselves, but we're never lost. Not really. Sometimes we just can't see who we are, or who we have been, to the people around us--the ones we love, those who love us. Sometimes, you just have to remember that you made it this far. You can go a little longer.”
― Michael C, Haymes

“Eugenics wis aye a gey sair pynt - the richt tae chuse yer ain mairraige pairtner, especially the wumman's richt, wis yin o thair vauntit freedoms, in contrast tae the FZ. Nanetheless, the Eugenics Law wis desingt tae discourage fowk, nae twa weys aboot it, fae hain bairns wi expensive medical problems. Parents that deleeberately incurrt costs for an avoidable genetic ill or disabeelity got nae benefits, nae maternity leave, nae schuill place for the bairn, naethin.”
― Wulf Kurtoglu, Braken Fences