"The Emancipation Proclamation for the Disabled"
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"This is the start of something big -- cripple power."
Ed Roberts - 1970

The Social Movement  

Through the networking of disabled individuals, multiple grassroots movements evolved, which demonstrated to the country that the disabled were capable of making their own decisions. Their first step towards independence focused on local improvements rather than nationwide legislation.


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"In subsequent years, several young people with severe disabilities join Ed at UCB. They called themselves the “Rolling Quads”.
Metropolitan Transportation Commission Website - March 25, 2011
"I don't want my deaf children to think that their only salvation is to be a hearing person."
Gary W. Olsen, Executive National Association of the Deaf - March 1988


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