The strongest people in the world aren't those most protected; they are the ones
that must struggle against adversity and obstacles - and surmount them - to survive.
I never give'em hell. I just tell them
the truth and they think it's hell.
~Harry S. Truman
When your belief is strong and your purpose just,
no obstacle can stand in your way.
It is during our darkest moments that
we must focus to see the light.
~Taylor Benson
The size of the obstacle is unimportant, having the courage
and conviction to overcome it is important.
The ability to foresee, visualize, and create your idea in
your mind is the most powerful resource you have.
~
George Washington Carver
You cannot know where you are going until you know where you have been.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no
give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere
fundamentals is surrender. For it is all give and no take.
~Mahatma Gandhi
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will
always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth
to each and every life.
~
Ronald Reagan
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
Promoting Independent Living through
Information Dissemination
Special Education isn't special unless
it includes Education
The only way to get equality is for two people to get the same thing at the same time at the same place.
~
Thurgood Marshall, 1934
Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When we must rise and take a stand,
Or leave our butt prints in the sand.
~author unknown
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
– Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequal people.
~Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom.
It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for.
I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave.
I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions
than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
~Martin Luther King Jr.-
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
~Declaration of Independence
Independent Living is about freedom of choice.
It is about being included. It celebrates people
with disabilities living a high quality life.
Independent Living means people with disabilities have
access to peer support, and individual and systems advocacy.
Its aim is to foster self help, consumer control and self determination.
Personal power, leadership abilities, independence
and full inclusion are what Independent Living is all about.
Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Wisdom comes from listening to what the heart already knows
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
today is a gift.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
-- William Jefferson Clinton
Your vision is not limited by what your eyes can see, but by what your mind can imagine.
~ Ellison Onizuka
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
~Janis Joplin
"Many times we may be preaching to the choir, but our purpose is to get more preachers preaching to a larger choir."
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?
Expedience asks the question, is it politic?
Vanity asks the question, is it popular?
But conscience asks the question, is it right?
There comes a time when we must take a position
that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular,
but we must make it because our
conscience tells us it is right. ~Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Your character is what you really are, while your reputation
is merely what others think you are.
Motivation ................................. Get's It Started
Desire…..............................…… Get's It Finished
"Better Educated Consumers Bring Better End Results"
Remember you are your child's voice speak clearly, speak loudly,
don't give in and don't give up.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
– Helen Keller
Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock…
~
Justice Arthur Goldberg
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an
attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in
one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out
and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride"
Civilization happens because we don't leave things to other people.
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight
for it, as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
Believe that the flame of democracy will never go out as long as
there's one candle in your hand.... Bill Moyers
"Independent Living is not doing things by yourself,
it is being in control of how things are done."
~Judy Heumann
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Stand up for what is right, even if you are standing alone.
The most valuable commodity of today's society is information;
to a person with a disability it is essential.
You may be only one person in the world,
but you may also be the world to one person.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me
because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a
quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
~Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
~Blaise Pascal
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
~Moshe Dayan
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
~Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
~Edmund Burk
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no
remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
~Helen Keller
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
~Aberham Lincoln
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
~Buddha
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while
bad people will find a way around the laws.
~Plato
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about
war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
~Omar N Bradley
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
~Croesus
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
~Benjamine Franklin
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
~Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
~Albert Einstein
The significant problems we have cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
~Albert Einstein
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate
prejudices - just recognize them.
~Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), television broadcast, December 31, 1955
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
~Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.
~Kane O'Hara
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers,
then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
~Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they
cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it,
and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
~Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
~Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
~Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
We hate some persons because we do not know them;
and we will not know them because we hate them.
~
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
"Truly, I say to you,
as you did it to one of the least of these
my brethren, you did it to me."
~Jesus
There are never enough I Love You's.
~Lenny Bruce
When you're eight years old nothing is your business.
~Lenny Bruce