Stella Young Quotes

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.

Visibility doesn't always equal freedom.

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.

It appears to suggest that I was removed because I was disabled - based on one occasion out of hundreds.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

I've been personally attacked for respectfully expressing my take on women's empowerment.

A lot of times, we look at people who have disabilities as, 'Oh, we can't invite these people here or there.' And I hate that, because it's inappropriate. It's so weird to me when people say they don't have friends who have disabilities.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

I have a mother. I have a wife. I have a daughter. I have sisters. I can see just in my experience in my life, where sometimes they have been just put to the side in some of the things that they do.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

I'm the darkie you can't control!

You're not disabled unless you say 'I'm disabled.'

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.