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- I'm not gonna be in my room, and in my house. So it's gonna be different. And getting acclimated and not, and not freaking out. If, you know, if it's a little, you know if it gets a little crazy.
- USA! USA!
- Italia! Italia!
- Once they have been born, defectives are happier and more useful in these institutions than when at large. But it would have been better by far, for them, and for the rest of the community, if they had never been born.
- I have a list of times from events where people beat me. And I'm like, all right, got to get five seconds faster.
- This is very nerve wracking. Cause I'm going out of the country for my first time. And I'm competing in the triathlon.
- Their entire lives, you know, you're disabled, and you got this or you've got that, and you've been diagnosed.
- What a retarded person see, and hear, may be confusing to them. And their behavior sometimes sets them apart from those who are considered to be normal.
- I wish that I could do things better, but I am happy with who I am.
- The whole message that we're sending the world is that we are athletes that can accomplish anything if we put our minds to it.
- Welcome to the 2019 Special Olympics world games, Abu Dhabi.
- Athletes! You send a message to every village, every city, and every nation.
- I am here with Trent Hampton from New York.
- The need, I think, to stretch one's self to one's own capability. That I think is what these Special Olympics are all about.
- Slowing it down with your leg, let's max out.
- Ever since I was in high school, I wanted to compete at the Olympic level, at that level where you're goin' against the best of the best of the world.
- Those with intellectual disabilities were often regarded with suspicion and fear, or even shame.
- And we deserve the same rights as everybody else in this society!
- I now sign this Americans with disability act. Let the shameful wall of exclusion, finally come tumbling down.
- Disabled people have not been allowed to be integrated into our society. Things are not gonna change overnight.
- I remember being bullied, a lot. They used to make fun of my voice, used to make fun of my head.
- But now the poor guy, you got to see this guy. Oh, I don't know what I said, ah. I don't remember.
- People didn't really like me.
- They made fun of me.
- Oh, that's very good, Mr. President.
- This is like, this is like, Special Olympics or something.
- No that's, that's very good.
- If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree. The fish will live its life feeling stupid.
- I am a man, with Down Syndrome, and my life is worth living.
- What wave? I'm in your wave? Don't beat me too much.
- Billy, you mean to say, you think I put women down?
- I don't think you give us credit, for having any brain.
- But here, at Special Olympics, we are here for one great reason. To see you Olympians.
- Mel, get off your bike!
- They whistled at me, they yelled at me and they were like, no
- Next to Christopher Wines, of the United States. 18 year old American.
- You're my opposer when I want freedom, You're my opposer when I want justice, You're my opposer when I want equality.
- Swimming here, my heads in the water, can't look up the whole way through this, otherwise I'm gonna lose.
- Trent Hampton, formally involved in a campaign called spread the word of inclusion, 15 New York schools involved.
- Do you think the Olympic games is the right place to do this kind of thing, that you want to use this as a kind of world stage?
- All we ask for, is an equal chance to be a human being.
- You become the societal outlyer, you're there with a group of people but you're by yourself in a box, and then instead of hearing voices all you hear is noise.
- Media was something that I used to be afraid of but media can also be a very valuable and it can be very good. So what do you think of meeting a person like me?