Mental Retardation Quotes

• When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose is to ask, "What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?"

  Harold S. Kushner

  Religious, Children, Community

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• Les diré que anoche se me acercó una madre aquí en Tampa, Florida, después del debate. Me dijo que su hija pequeña se puso esa vacuna, esa inyección, y que después sufrió retraso mental.

  Michele Bachmann

  Madre, Hija, Estúpida

  "Matt Lauer insta a Bachmann a atacar a Perry; la cobertura del debate por la NBC fomenta las luchas internas del Partido Republicano". Transcripción de la entrevista con Matt Lauer, www.mrc.org. 13 de septiembre de 2011.

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• As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end, the high end, more children who are just a little bit off, who ordinarily you would not single out now are being described as perhaps Asperger’s syndrome or on the high end of the autism spectrum, so I don’t believe there is an epidemic.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Children, Believe, Epidemics

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.

  Don Kates

  Gun, Law, People

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• Una de cada seis mujeres estadounidenses tiene tanto mercurio en el útero que sus hijos corren el riesgo de padecer un sombrío inventario de enfermedades, como autismo, ceguera, retraso mental y enfermedades cardiacas, hepáticas y renales.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Niños, Corazón, Autismo

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the squarest place on earth. The latest evidence? A current military document that lists homosexuality as a mental disorder in the same league as mental retardation - noting, of course, the one difference: retarded people can still get into heaven.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Differences, America

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