Leeanne G’s Reviews > No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement > Status Update

“Personal assistance, in the eyes of the disability rights movement, is an item of social liberation—just like a lightweight wheelchair or a bus lift—not a form of medical care.”

So Alexander Graham Bell is not someone to be very proud of

“[ADA] would not have happened without Gallaudet [University’s 1988 deaf protest] raising people’s consciousness.”