#disabilities

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#choice #citizens #clear #disabilities #elderly

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#anxiety #conviction #disabilities #due #education

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives. ↗

— Anne Ford

#children #cured #disabilities #go #happy

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#assurance #been #burden #care #care costs

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

#affirmative #disabilities #give #hire #i

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more. ↗

— Richard Masur

#commercial #deaf #disabilities #example #first

It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count. ↗

— Chris Burke

#disabilities #our

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. ↗

— Major Owens

#because #best #civil #civil rights #clear

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

#community #country #credit #dart #disabilities

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

#any #away #disabilities #get #keeping