Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Handicapped. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Handicapped Quotes And Sayings by 73 Authors including Jim Davis,Jessa Gamble,Robert M. Hensel,Matshona Dhliwayo,Giles Duley for you to enjoy and share.
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,
than the limitations society tries to place upon them.
It is better to be handicapped in both arms and legs than to be crippled in the mind.
For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.
Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.
A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.
My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.
poverty and powerlessness are cornerstones of the dependency people with disabilities experience.
I am somewhat handicapped in doing things with my hands.
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.
People with disabilities are the largest minority in the world, and we are the most underrepresented in entertainment.
Know me for my abilities, not my disability.
My ability is greater than my disability.
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
promise you that for every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges. God
Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity' ... Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live.
People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.
Disabilities are not inspiration, they are messages that need to be addressed.
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality
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.
In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions.
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort.
People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
The only handicap in life is a bad attitude.
I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
I wanted to share the realities of living with a disability since birth. My book is my attempt to promote increased inclusion and greater understanding of individual abilities
The only place a man can be truly handicapped is in his mind, and that a man who can conquer his own mind has got the world at his feet.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.
In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly disabled at all. I still have an impairment, and there are obviously some very restrictive things about that, but the impact of disability is less.
For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.
When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"
You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.
For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.
Say what you want about the deaf ...Deaf-- Jimmy Carr
The lack of social support and sympathy is an additional trial: disabled, but with the nature of her disability not clear - she is not, after all, manifestly blind or paralysed, manifestly anything - she tends to be treated as a phoney or a fool.
I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.
Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.
[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
When speaking of disabilities, the blind and their needs are most often used as an example. It is deceivingly simplistic since accessibility is something most of the population can benefit from.
I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.
I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.
Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.
There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.
As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.
If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it.
When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.
We all have our handicaps. You're not mine.
The extraordinary and unique quality of the disabled body, I argue, can be seen not only as resisting identification but also, and conversely, as providing a symbolic and actual basis on which to structure a system of identification that seeks to fix individual bodily identity.
My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!
Recognizing and respecting differences in others, and treating everyone like you want them to treat you, will help make our world a better place for everyone. Care ... be your best. You don't have to be handicapped to be different. Everyone is different!
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.
Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
People with developmental disabilities and mental illness are only handicapped by how much we underestimate them.
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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.
Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.
As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion.
Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
Being born with a disability, can sometimes be a struggle, but it is the ability to overcome such a challenge, that makes it so worth the fight. NEVER GIVE UP!!!
You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.
Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage
Women are like parking spots, the best ones are handicapped.
There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.
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.
I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.
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.
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.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'
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.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Our handicaps exist only in our minds.
If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well.
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
What's the emergency?"
"I'm disabled!"
-The IT Crowd
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.