Stella Young Quotes

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. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

The problems of the disabled are unpopular.

By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

Not only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion.

I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

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.

I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.