Inspirational Stacy Park Milburn quotes on the late human rights activist’s birthday

May is the month of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States. Google Doodle honors the contribution of Asian and Pacific islanders, and on May 19, we’re celebrating Stacey Park Milbern.

Stacey was an American disability rights activist. She played a pivotal role in creating the movement for the rights of persons with disabilities. Throughout her life, she has championed equal rights for people with disabilities.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, she defined herself as an offbeat and faced her own challenges growing up in a conservative family in North Carolina. Stacy moved to San Francisco to pursue her dreams and was not restricted by any disabilities.

When COVID cases were at their peak in 2020, she founded the Disability Justice Culture Club with her friends to help with supplies and more for those in need.

The activist herself was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, but she didn’t let that come in her way of making hope for others.

Stacey, unfortunately, lost her life due to complications of kidney surgery on May 19, 2020. She passed away on her 33rd birthday.

As the world remembers Stacey for all she’s done for humanity, we’ve rounded up some of her most inspiring quotes that will forever be relevant.

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Inspirational quotes from Stacey Park Milbern

• “I really like separating disability from disability…So vulnerability is a physical or neurological manifestation. Like what is real. I have a physical disability. Disability is what society creates as a barrier because of vulnerability. When I am in a place where my access needs are met. My weakness wouldn’t be much.”

• “When we focus on an individual’s individual disability or diagnosis… it kind of leaves society out of its predicament. It makes all the focus on that individual circumstance when capacity, exclusion, and violence really happen because of regimes of oppression.”

• “There is no reason for us to be ashamed of who we are. We were born into this world just the way we are. We are what we were meant to be. That doesn’t mean we can’t grow and change and be better. Grow. Change. Be better.”

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• “We deserve to be heard for our limits. We deserve respect. We deserve dignity. We deserve to see our humanity. We deserve a chance to contribute to society. We deserve the ability to make mistakes.”

• “I want people with disabilities twenty years from now to not think they’re broken. You know, you don’t think there’s anything wrong spiritually, physically, or emotionally with them. And not just people with disabilities but gay people, gender nonconforming people, people of color. And all the people who I think society pushes them down and out. And just knowing we’re so strong.”

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