Igor Luksic Quotes

The ADA gave more than 50 million Americans with disabilities, just like my son Cole, the chance to live the American Dream and be defined only by their potential - not their limitations.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

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.

My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with it, there were no resources for people with the condition. So my grandmother and grandfather, who lived in Brooklyn, tried to reach out for some type of resource or support, and people just told them to institutionalize my father.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.

Once I got to the NBA I wanted to continue to work with the Special Olympics and those with special needs.

There are 58 million people with some kind of disability in America, so it's the largest minority, really, in America, and it lags behind in education and economics and jobs, so outside of 'CSI' and outside of my music, I serve on a couple of boards, and I'm trying to be a part of the movement that changes this.

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

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.

I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

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 want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.