"You are guilty until proven worthy, and that is a problem with our national disability insurance scheme."
"THE STORY OF HELEN KELLER HAS OFTEN FOCUSED MORE ON HER DISABILITIES RATHER THAN HER FIGHT FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS AND RACIAL JUSTICE."
"A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could help block conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care, advocates and experts say."
"A first step if you want to help disabled people is essentially listening to disabled people."
"Handicapped people should be as much a part of the world."
"It's deeply troubling and also a disability rights issue."
"Gallop isn't a choice. Gallop is my mobility. He is my freedom. He is my independence."
"And if you were discriminated against as a fellow disabled person, as a real service dog user, or for any other reason, know that you're not alone."
"We need to integrate disability into our analysis of capitalism."
"Canadians with disabilities must be treated with dignity and respect, full stop."
"We are bringing agencies together to make sure Americans with long COVID who had a disability, have access to the rights and resources that are due under the disability law."
"It is highly unlikely that any law was ever written with the intention to deprive a disabled individual of an assistive device."
"You should not take advantage of people who have disabilities."
"People with disabilities are constantly having to litigate our way through life."
"Judy Human is often called the mother of the disability rights movement."
"PWDs have the right to have good conditions in the workplace."
"Disabled people who often spend their life being told what to do and being marginalized just going into a place that's associated with politicians with the establishment and just shouting as loudly as possible can feel really, really empowering."
"She's medical equipment in the eyes of federal law."
"People of special needs have a right to life."
"The disability community has been so vocal about the issues with interactions with police, particularly for black and brown individuals."
"I would dedicate policies to making sure that seniors and people living with disabilities are respected."
"Pornhub is being sued by a deaf man because the adult video site does not have subtitles."
"If your leftism doesn't include disabled people then it's not leftism."
"Disabled people exist and deserve a place in public spaces."
"Dismissing access barriers as excuses is ableism."
"When blind people are actually able to access and use devices, products, and spaces in an equal way... it empowers us to reach our full potential."
"No one deserves to be treated like this, especially someone in a wheelchair."
"Hopefully one day this type of stigma and discrimination against disabled people will finally cease to exist."
"Disability in Canada should not mean poverty."
"People with disabilities don't deserve pity."
"The dog is a professionally trained service dog that I require due to my disability. I have all of its papers and documentation proving it is a service dog."
"Why Americans with long COVID are being denied disability coverage - what you need to know."
"This kind of attack on vulnerable people is still a really awful problem... Crimes against people with disabilities have risen by 300 percent in the UK since 2011."
"Telling an autistic person experiencing demand avoidance, a manifestation of a disability to just get on with it, in my view, is the equivalent of telling a person who uses a wheelchair to just walk up the stairs."
"Traditional vote-by-mail systems are not accessible to voters with disabilities."
"We call them Americans with disabilities because they are first and foremost Americans."
"Capitalism does not give a single fuck about disabled people or their lives."
"Reasonable accommodations must be provided to people with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act."
"Fat liberation cannot exist without advocacy for the disabled."
"I'm really sorry you had to go through that, but keep in mind, you did pave the way for other students with disabilities in that school board's region."
"Disabled people don't owe you anything."
"If you have a disability, you should be taken care of."
"Disabled peoples' voices, perspectives, and opinions about their own bodies are second guessed or even silenced by able-bodied people."
"If you're going to have a law that actively offends the human rights of people with disabilities, you would really want to have a system in place that supports those people to defend their human rights."
"The Americans with Disability Act does also protect people who are caring for somebody with limitations."
"If you walk through our local communities, you'll see folks with disabilities working, you'll see them out and about shopping, you'll see them paying taxes, holding down jobs, and that is light-years from where we were back in 1980."
"Since Judge Van Sickle's ruling in 1982, life has changed for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities."
"Thirty years after the ARC decision, the lives of people with developmental disabilities have improved tremendously."
"Civil rights and disability rights are big."
"She was amused for her family, her siblings who went on to really affect a tremendous amount of change for people with disabilities."
"Activision just announced the removal of work from home options and is denying applications for working from home permanently to people with disabilities. Mass walkouts ensued as they should."
"The social model of disability suggests that we are not disabled by our bodies, but we are disabled by the society around us."
"A lot of disability activism is focused on bringing the social model into light and having both models work together in synergy."
"Our laws and policies must reflect that our disabled lives are not of lesser value."
"These cases were pivotal in advocating for the rights and dignity of individuals with disabilities leaving an indelible mark on the ongoing struggle for a more Equitable and Humane future."
"No one should be judged because their physical handicaps. Little St. Margaret Castello is a saint for the disabled, the poor, the unwanted, the blind, and little people."
"If we create a more comfortable sphere for people with intellectual disabilities, that would be the best first step."
"So Johnny and Friends seeks to provide hope to those with disabilities around the world... it's perfect."
"We have to look to the future to make sure that children with disabilities have a voice."
"There is something very wrong with the system that punishes citizens whose only crime is to be born disabled."
"the mistreatment of disabled people kills disabled people all the time and that is something that I want to talk about"
"Service dogs are protected by the ADA, so a disabled owner can legally bring their service dog just about anywhere with them, bypassing typical pet policies."
"The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 seeks to accommodate those with disabilities by broadening their access to public facilities."
"This recent trend of mishandled or damaged wheelchair incidents by commercial airlines raises serious concerns about the systemic barriers for passengers with disabilities."
"What we’ve been discussing, Samuel, in part, is allowing disabled people to feel proud about who we are and to feel like we have a right not to be discriminated against."
"We're implementing the biggest changes to the special educational needs and disability system in a generation to improve these children's lives."
"Disability is part of the natural diversity of the world. We should not be segregated."
"We have to tell our own stories, because when nondisabled people tell our stories, we only get to have three stories: ‘Help me, I’m disabled,’ ‘cure me’ or ‘kill me.’"
"The disability rights movement... aims to fight for fairness and equality for those suffering from disabilities."
"This had a huge impact on disability rights and advocacy and it continues to shape conversations around institutional care and human rights to this very day."
"For any society just to drop somebody off, especially with a disability, and expect them to fend for themselves, it's really barbaric."
"I advocate for equal rights for the uniquely abled community."
"It's very important to understand that people with disabilities have the right to be a part of making decisions and just like we need support to make decisions, people with disabilities need support."
"We really encourage people with intellectual disabilities and autism to really run their own meetings."
"Service animals have public access rights, meaning they generally must be allowed to accompany people with disabilities."
"Seniors and those who are disabled deserve to live a life of dignity."
"What justice and liberation would look like for disabled people and our communities."
"The banner under which we had to fight as disabled people was discrimination, ending discrimination."
"President-elect Joe Biden has made more promises to the disability community than perhaps any incoming president in U.S. history."
"Please everybody pick a logo that you like... because I'm all for this non-profit, the disabled have gotten screwed their entire life."
"Reasserting affirmative action obligations to people with disabilities, protecting special education students in school discipline hearings, and expanding voting rights are all among the new administration's goals."
"Compulsive hoarding is now considered a mental disability and is therefore protected under the various disability-related laws."
"I hope for a world where more people understand and treat those with disabilities without discrimination."
"Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a service dog is defined as a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability."
"Dear sir, if you take a disabled person's parking spot, then you should also have to take their disability."
"I've done much better work since the ADA passed."
"People with disabilities should be able to live like everybody else."
"The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability."
"Persons with disabilities have the right to enjoy equal human rights as everyone else."
"Students with disabilities must be educated to the maximum extent possible with their non-disabled peers."
"IDEA includes procedural safeguards to protect the rights of students with disabilities and their parents."
"It ensures that students with disabilities have equal access to education as other students."
"Their aim is to change the disability law so a disabled child is assessed on their needs rather than the parents' ability to pay."
"While we have much work to do to realize the full aspiration of the ADA, our country has made progress toward its goals of equality of opportunity, full participation, self-sufficiency, and respect for the 61 million Americans with disabilities."
"Thank you to every disability trailblazer that has come before me."