{"quotes":[{"text":"Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","believer","believers","cripple","crippled","disability","disable","disabled","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","religion","religious","sane","sanity","satire","superstition","superstitious"],"id":16415,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.","author":"Brian Spellman","tags":["disability","disabled","suicide","suicide-attempt"],"id":43541,"author_id":"Brian+Spellman"},{"text":"Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the chance to explore What we had taken for Granted the very day before, Some would say I'm selfish, To hold a little sadness in my eyes, But they don't feel the sorrow When I can't do, all that helps me feel alive. I can express my emotions, but I can't run wild and free, My mind and soul would handle it but hell upon my hip, ankle and knees, This disorder came about,as a friendship said its last goodbyes, Soooo this is what I got given for all the years I stood by? I finally stand still to question it, life it is in fact? What the fuck is the purpose of it all if you get stabbed in the back? And after the anger fills the air, the regret takes it places, I never wanted to be that girl, Horrid, sad and faded... So I took with a grain of salt, my new found reality, I am not of my pain,the disability doesnt define me. I find away to adjust, also with the absence of my friend,I trust the choices I make, allow my heart to mend. I pick up the piecesI retrain my leg, I find where I left off And I start all over again, You see what happens... When a warrior gets tested; They grow from the ashes Powerful and invested. So I thank all this heartache,As I put it to a rest, I move forward with my life And I'll build a damn good nest.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["complex-regional-pain-syndrome","disability","disabled","expression","forgive","freedom","freedom-of-speech","heartache","injury","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","let-go","poem","poem-of-the-day","poetry","of-the-day","raw","saying-goodbye"],"id":44202,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"He picked up the paper and read the article; it was just one of many he had read lately that portrayed the poor in an awful light. The badge had now become the symbol of the unemployed, the sick, the disabled, and the most vulnerable. Badger had noticed that the media, just like that newspaper, swirled around anybody who they deemed too lazy or too stupid to work, and it seemed, people believed what they read.","author":"Paul Howsley","tags":["disabled","media","unemployed","vilification"],"id":62384,"author_id":"Paul+Howsley"},{"text":"I Have a Dream... Someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a Dream... Someday the human \u0026 civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored and they are treated as equals. I Have a Dream... Someday ALL parents who have children with disabilities see their child as a blessing and not a burden. I Have a Dream... Someday there will be more jobs and opportunities for individuals with disabilities. I Have a Dream... Someday there will be UNITY 'within' the disabled community.I HAVE A DREAM!!!","author":"Yvonne Pierre","tags":["autism","cerebral-palsy","disability","disabled","down-syndrome","dream","humanity","i-have-a-dream","rights"],"id":76826,"author_id":"Yvonne+Pierre"},{"text":"I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.","author":"Isaac Marion","tags":["barrier","boulders","challenge","consider","conversation","converse","disabled","eloquence","eloquent","feelings","impediment","mouth","nothing","obstacle","path","ponder","say","speak","speech","talk","think","thoughts","unable","words"],"id":106798,"author_id":"Isaac+Marion"},{"text":"Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.","author":"Misti Renea Neely","tags":["autism","autistic","battles","children","disabilities","disabled","dyslexia"],"id":122130,"author_id":"Misti+Renea+Neely"},{"text":"I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["disabled","feeling","treatment"],"id":159147,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","blind","bore","bored","boredom","deep","dictum","dictums","disability","disabled","entertain","entertainment","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","hand","hands","higher-animal","higher-animals","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","insightful","interest","interested","interesting","lower-animal","lower-animals","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","sane","sanity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","see","seeing","sight","south-africa","south-african","thinking","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":214036,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In western societies many people become sick in their thirties, develop serious medical conditions in their forties and are disabled in their fifties.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["conditions","disabled","fifties","forties","medical","people","sick","societies","thirties","western"],"id":335137,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}