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From: Bill.Scarborough@p0.f420.n141.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Scarborough)
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Subject: Re: ADAPT- Baltimore- p2
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Date: 9 May 91 15:11:20 GMT
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Index Number: 15460

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

     If only by Vulcan logic and Betazoid intuition, humans responded
to the heartfelt needs of people with disabilities to be liberated.

  If only standing by and presenting charts and citing figures, that
the doors would be opened from the nursing homes and state schools
and other institutions, and people locked up in them could be brought
out into the sunlight of living in the community.

     Many ADAPT members do their time also in making those presentations
before committees, passing resolutions at political conventions,
quoting facts and figures and drawing up charts.  These things we
have not forgotten.

     However, good ideas (such as independent living,) have a way
of being sent to the staid and proper committees to die.  And many
good people have been sent to the correct and staid and proper
institutions to die.

     There may be mistakes in tactics.  But the basic need to maintain
revolutionary struggle is not a mistake.

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