They have a good chance to take the White House, the Congress and the Courts in 2000. Back to power and privilege for the few. Many of you have fought well. But all of us must fight more. We must not only defend our rights, we must lead democracy on the offense.
Humans are totally interdependent.
People with or without disabilities will never achieve their full potential until there is a revolution that empowers all. A revolution to eliminate primitive prejudice and primitive paternalism with its values of power and prestige and its authoritarian cookie-cutter solutions. A revolution to establish a culture that focuses the full force of science and free-enterprise democracy on the individualized empowerment of each person to achieve full personal potential. Individualized empowerment means that cultural supports will be molded to the individual preferences and abilities of each person. Individualized empowerment means that every aspect of government and society will be infused with the principles of ADA, of IDEA and of independent living - of Independence, Inc. Individualized empowerment means choices for all, power for all, government by all.