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Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Boot Career Disability Discipline Entrepreneur Focus Football Football Team Group Growing Growing Up High High School Home Joined Learned Learning Learning Disability Odds Persistence Proven School Side Skills Social Success Team Teamwork Up Value Vital Were

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It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

~Dick Durbin

Topics: Bottom Disability Disabled Illinois List Monuments More Our Owe Parades Pay Rank Speeches Than Unacceptable Veterans

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The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.

~Eric Schneiderman

Topics: American American Workers Attempting Basic Been Conditions Denied Disability Eligible Even Fired Food Form Granted Harvest Improve Insurance Other Our Overtime Pay Rights Systematically Trying Unemployment Union Who Workers Working

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Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: About Child Childhood Children Cough Death Disability Great Host Indeed Longer Medicine Modern Other Parents Polio Triumphs Vaccines Whose Worry

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I like to discuss my condition publicly because if I, with this disability, am able to fulfill some of my ambitions, so can other diabetics.

~Fawad Khan

Topics: Able Am Ambition Because Condition Disability Discuss Fulfill Like Other Publicly Some

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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

~Gary Bauer

Topics: Abandon Aiming American Being Believe Child Compassion Dealing Dementia Dignity Disability Every Heart Human Human Being Instead Last Life Newborn Republicans Sanctity Should Tell Thing Unborn Unborn Child Value

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