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Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of -- Morgan Freeman
My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. -- Chaka Fattah
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. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities. -- Lauren Potter
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! -- Lauren Potter
There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking. -- Major Owens
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power. -- Major Owens
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do. -- Richard Masur
People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S. -- Stella Young
It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities. -- Lauren Potter
Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought. -- Stella Young
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. -- Stella Young
People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do. -- Karni Liddell
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment. -- Maysoon Zayid
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us -- Jean Vanier
Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities. -- Stella Young
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud. -- Stella Young
There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies. -- Andy Behrman
You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform. -- Steve Israel
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do. -- Jeanne Phillips
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand. -- Stella Young
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone. -- Aimee Mullins
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. -- Chris Burke
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. -- Mary McAleese
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. -- Chaka Fattah
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens. -- Jesse Ventura
I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't. -- William J. Clinton
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. -- Mark Haddon
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. -- John Lynch
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. -- Chaka Fattah
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. -- Gregory Hines
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. -- Charles Hazlewood
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. -- Hillary Clinton
New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone. -- William J. Clinton
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I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities. -- Stevie Wonder
That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise. -- Pauline Oliveros
In wheelchair sports, people thought athletes with disabilities were courageous and inspirational. They never give them credit for simply being competitive. -- Jean Driscoll
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us. -- Stella Young
A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind. -- Warren Mundine
The President's 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. -- Chaka Fattah

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