The Faces of Intellectual Disability Quotes

“Prophetlike, the retarded only remind us of the insecurity hidden in our false sense of self-possession.”
― Licia Carlson, The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections

“awareness of one's being-toward-disability (to transpose a Heideggerian turn of phrase) may provide the impetus to critically examine one's personal relationship to the possibility of disability and the meaning of disability in a broader social context. This can translate into the idea that "we are all disabled somehow," and lead to a call to abandon the us/them dichotomy that defines so many discussions of intellectual disability.”
― Licia Carlson, The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections

“I fear that the stress on independence reinstates Sesha as less than fully human. With every embrace, I know her humanity."63”
― Licia Carlson, The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections