Miscellaneous Book quotes

A variety of book quotes with no discernable theme

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[prettyasapic]

Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.” (A decision which still has not been reversed)

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors and parents left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

Not to be too mentally disabled on main but that speech from Nancy made me mad uncomfortable.

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

Everyone keeps hating on Colleen for constantly talking about being a ballerina.

As if the editors didn’t just compile a montage of her saying that, and every single person in there probably said their jobs at least once for every single person they were introduced to, and they could’ve made that montage of anyone.

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

Playing games with words doesn't make you less a liar

Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie

[razreads]

It’s a midnight lie… a kind of lie told for someone else’s sake, a lie that sits between goodness and wrong, just as midnight is the moment between night and morning.

Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie (via razreads)

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

It wasn't the life I'd planned. It wasn't the life anyone would have wanted for me, but it was a life, and it was good. And most importantly? It was mine. That's all that mattered.

Eva Darrows, Belly Up

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

Funny enough, inaction has bigger consequences than taking action a lot of the time

Eva Darrows, Belly Up

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

In her eyes he recognized a hate big enough and wide enough and deep enough to match his own. A hate you could drown in like a vat of wine.

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, Holly Black

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

Stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, Holly Black

[miscellaneous-nonsense-llc]

Death is never added to death; it multiplies

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie

[nondualreality]

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via nondualreality)

[quotesfrombooksimreading]

We all know about falling in love at first sight. […] But have you ever heard about people becoming best friends at first sight?

Sherman Alexie, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (via quotesfrombooksimreading)

[the-gazebo-we-called-pirate-ship]

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (via the-gazebo-we-called-pirate-ship)

[quotesfrombooksimreading]

I don’t believe in magic. I don’t believe in God, either. But I thank God anyway for you.

Sherman Alexie, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (via quotesfrombooksimreading)

[mydailybookquotes]

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.”

-Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

[the-gazebo-we-called-pirate-ship]

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar sytem has exploded?

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (via the-gazebo-we-called-pirate-ship)