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Jerry's Kids. The Special Olympics. A Blind Person With A Bundle Of Pencils In One Hand And A Tin Cup In The Other. An Old Woman Being Helped Across The Street By A Boy Scout. The Poster Child, Struggling Bravely To Walk. The Meager, Embittered Life Of The Wheelchair-bound. For Most Americans, These Are The Familiar, Comfortable Images Of The Disabled: Benign, Helpless, Even Heroic, Struggling Against All Odds And Grateful For The Kindness Of Strangers. Yet No Set Of Images Could Be More Repellent To People With Disabilities. In No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging A New Civil Rights Movement, Joe Shapiro Of U.s. News & World Report Tells Of A Political Awakening Few Nondisabled Americans Have Even Imagined. There Are Over 43 Million Disabled People In This Country Alone; For Decades Most Of Them Have Been Thought Incapable Of Working, Caring For Themselves, Or Contributing To Society.^ But During The Last Twenty-live Years, They, Along With Their Parents And Families, Have Begun To Recognize That Paraplegia, Retardation, Deafness, Blindness, Aids, Autism, Or Any Of The Hundreds Of Other Chronic Illnesses And Disabilities That Differentiate Them From The Able-bodied Are Not Tr

Who reads No Pity:: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement?

Author

Shapiro, Joseph P.

Publisher

New York: Times Books

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812924121

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (391 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14