Gallaudet Quotes

• Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

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  Marlee Matlin

  People   Deaf   Gallaudet  

  "Pam's House Blend mini-interview with Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin". Interview with Pam Spaulding, shadowproof.com. March 24, 2007.

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• Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

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  I. King Jordan

  Technology   People   Focus  

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• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

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  I. King Jordan

  College   Thinking   Issues  

  "Gallaudet University Interview With Former President I. King Jordan". Interview with Ken Adelman, www.washingtonian.com. March 1, 2006.

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• The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

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  Michael Dukakis

  Congratulations   Long   People  

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• The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!

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  Paul Simon

  Country   Powerful   Messages  

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• You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

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  Tom Harkin

  Hero   Community   Together  

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• Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

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  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  Appreciation   Intellectual   Development  

  Edward Miner Gallaudet, Lance J. Fischer, David L. De Lorenzo (1983). “History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907”, p.255, Gallaudet University Press

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