I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of overcoming personal limitations and embracing one's challenges as part of one's identity.
In this quote, Lyndon B. Johnson expresses a profound sense of resilience and self-acceptance. By stating that he is 'all handicap,' he acknowledges that every individual has their own struggles and difficulties, and rather than viewing them as limitations, he sees them as intrinsic aspects of his identity. This perspective encourages others to confront their own challenges with courage and to understand that true strength lies in embracing one's vulnerabilities.
In practice
In a motivational speech addressing students with disabilities, this quote can inspire them to embrace their uniqueness.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.
If you can stand up for your faith when you're on top, you can stand up for it now that you're at the bottom.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.
hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch
How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
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