Jay Ruderman famous quotes

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
-- Jay Ruderman

#Hands #Disability #Public Speaking

Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need of charity. It's not about charity, it's about empowerment.
-- Jay Ruderman

#Thinking #People #Make You Think

As people live longer, disability becomes more of an issue. And there seems to be more children born with a disability. I don't know if it's true, or if we're just better at diagnosing certain disabilities than in the past.
-- Jay Ruderman

#Children #Past #Issues

Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay and lesbian community has become much more mainstream in society. I would venture to say it's in part because people began to feel more comfortable when they saw that group on TV.
-- Jay Ruderman

#Attitude #Gay #People

People are starting to realize that the disability community has been disenfranchised and deserves to have its rights recognized, which I see as a positive trend. I don't think it'll be a quick process, but I see more attention being given to it.
-- Jay Ruderman

#Thinking #Rights #People

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

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

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Public Speaking is very easy.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.