Accessibility Rights Quotes

Light means nothing to a blind man.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us.

The reason why access to facilities - and access to public spaces - is so important is because it's much more difficult to go to work, to go to school, to participate in the public marketplace if you can't access bathrooms that make sense for you, that match who you are.

For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

We have our work cut out to make sure our outdoors will always remain accessible.

The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.