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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
~ I. King Jordan
After
Anything
Becoming
Better
Deaf
Education
Ever
Get
Life
My Life
Realized
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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.
~ I. King Jordan
About
Access
Accounting
Another
Attention
College
Deaf
Deafness
Even
Get
Goes
How
Issue
Journalism
Matter
Pay
Pay Attention
Person
Psychology
Same
Students
Supportive
Think
You
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Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.
~ I. King Jordan
Among
Deaf
Deaf People
Differences
Need
Okay
People
Recognize
Those
Together
Work
Work Together
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
~ I. King Jordan
Accident
Average
Deaf
Grew
High
High School
Hospital
Joined
Little
Little Town
Motorcycle
Navy
Outside
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Regular
School
Student
Then
Town
Up
Very
While
Woke
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
~ I. King Jordan
American
British
Different
Language
Lived
Scotland
Sign
Very
Year
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
~ I. King Jordan
Administrator
Arts
Became
College
Dean
Department
Faculty
Member
Presidential
Psychologist
Psychology
Sciences
Search
Then
Time
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
~ I. King Jordan
Also
Believe
Bridge
Committed
Communicate
Cultures
Different
Different Cultures
Different Worlds
Everything
I Think
More
More People
Needs
People
Reach
Sign
Speak
Still
Think
Two
Work
Worlds
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
~ I. King Jordan
Bit
Born
Comfortable
Deaf
Doing
Grow
Grow Up
Know
Little
Little Bit
Me
Myself
People
Resent
Some
Speak
Them
Up
Who
You
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16 June, 1943
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