The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children - children with mental retardation - can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.

I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don't say your friend's retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don't be mean to people.

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

I got attention by being funny at school pretending to be retarded and jumping around with a deformed hand.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess' but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.