Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or...
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Fred Rogers
Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
That made love–not grace–the magic ingredient. Then anew thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver wentup her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis ofgrace?
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Penelope Marzec
The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More Quotes By Marjory Stoneman Douglas
I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.