LISTEN TO DISABLED VOICES

  • We should not make disabled lives subject to debate.

    Alice Wong

  • If I have to feel thankful about an accessible bathroom, when am I ever gonna be equal in the community?

    Judith Heumann

  • We need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability.

    Stevie Wonder

  • 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

  • I am different, not less.

    Dr. Temple Grandin

  • Part of the problem is that we tend to think that equality is about treating everyone the same, when it’s not. It’s about fairness. It’s about equity of access.

    Judith Heumann

  • I wanted to be part of the world, but I didn’t see anyone like me in it.

    Jim LeBrecht

  • Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

    Michael J. Fox

  • It is so important to showcase people with disabilities with intersectional identities because that allows viewers to see beyond disability….People with disabilities are multilayered—we are complex breathing human beings defined by more than just what we lack.

    Lauren Ridloff

  • Accessibility allows us to tap into everyone’s potential.

    Debra Ruh

  • The ADA was a wonderful achievement. But it was only the tip of the iceberg. You can pass a law but until you can change society’s attitudes, that law won’t mean much.”

    Denise Sherer Jacobson

  • Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

    Nido Qubein

  • If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

    Maya Angelou