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From: Jeff.Salzberg@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Salzberg)
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Subject: Re: Exit Row Survey
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Date: 28 Jun 91 14:42:35 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 BH> I don't think I should be barred
 BH> from an exit just because I'm blind, it's a matter of civil
 BH> rights

 No, it's not.  It's a matter of SAFETY.

 BH> That's what they may have
 BH> said about Rosa Parks, when she decided that she wasn't going
 BH> to give up her seat for a white man, or that black people had
 BH> to ride in the back of the bus.

 Rosa Parks did not directly endanger other people's life and safety.

... "That's not writing, that's typing" - Truman Capote

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