Hi all,

Here are the "Quotes of the Day" from August's Inclusion Daily
Express, the commercial-free disability rights newspaper.
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/QuotesofDay.htm

Feel free to distribute these widely!

If you had to select the "Quote of the Month", which would it be?

Tuesday, August 1:
"I eat at home all by myself."
--Four-year-old Samantha Crabtree, after demonstrating how she
uses her newly designed spill-proof spoon (Virginia)
"They wouldn't be qualified to be police officers, but we might hire
them to work in the office answering phones."
--A local police chief when asked if he would hire people who only
met the minimum qualifications required for abuse investigators at
Sonoma Developmental Center (California)

Wednesday, August 2:
"Hannah is a completely different child now and is a joy to be with."
--Karen Harkness, talking about her three-year-old daughter now that
she has had surgery to repair her heart -- surgery which doctors had
first refused to perform (United Kingdom)
"The rooms are much more homey, and we've had a lot of compliments
about that."
--A nursing home administrator, dismayed at investigators who keep
citing his facility for resident abuse and fire code violations (New
Hampshire)

Thursday, August 3:
"Did I mention I have Down syndrome?"
--Windy Smith, in a letter to presidential candidate George W. Bush,
which she read at the Republican National Convention last night
(Pennsylvania)
"This is important because in the future, if a young person gets a hold
of it, they may not need a caretaker."
--Eunice Kennedy Shriver, executive vice president of the Joseph P.
Kennedy Jr. Foundation, at the unveiling of "Pocket Coach", a new
software program designed to allow a person with mental retardation
to be more independent (Washington State)

Friday, August 4:
"It was exciting to be that close to the water. I really like it."
--Francisco Andrade, 15, talking about his trip on what is being called
the first wheelchair-accessible trail leading to an ocean beach on the
Pacific Coast (California)
"He was frightened. I'm sure he didn't know what to do."
--Terry Smith, explaining why his son Shannon, who had mental
retardation, may have refused police instructions to get out of his
vehicle before an officer opened fire on him, killing him last
week (Illinois)

Monday, August 7:
"Just like in World War II, like leading lambs into the shower and
gassing them. That was Fairview."
--Kenneth Richard Newman, 59, talking about his experiences at
Fairview Training Center, an institution that closed its doors this
spring (Oregon)
"It hurts to be in that category, that I'm retarded or stupid...I'm not
retarded."
--Death row inmate Oliver Cruz, 33, whose lawyer says he has "the
emotional and intellectual development of an 8-year-old" and is working
to keep him from being executed on Wednesday for murder (Texas)

Tuesday, August 8:
"The technical barriers to science education for high school students
with disabilities need to be overcome."
--Rory A. Cooper, a professor who co-developed a program that
brings high school students with and without disabilities to do science
projects together for competition (Pennsylvania)
"I just feel with the help of friends, family and God you can just about
do anything. The impossible just takes you maybe a little bit longer."
--Harlan Temple, a farmer with cerebral palsy who was not allowed
to take agriculture classes in high school because teachers believed
he could never be a farmer (South Dakota)

Wednesday, August 9:
"If you don't think this situation is an emergency, then ask the citizens
who have been turned away by your department."
--Sen. Robert Jauch, criticizing his state's Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation for deciding to not serve any new applicants after
August 21 (Wisconsin)
"People often confuse the two systems."
--Columnist Terry Boisot on the movements away from institutions
and toward community for people with developmental disabilities
and people with mental illness (California)

Thursday, August 10:
"Instead of being the kid in the neighborhood with a handicap, all
of a sudden, he was the kid in the neighborhood with the cool car."
--The mother of Jordan Snell, a seven-year-old with cerebral palsy
whose specially designed scooter has made him the envy of his
peers (Utah)
"The police tell them: 'We want you come in and help us crack
the case.' They love that."
--Robert Perske, on how law enforcement officers sometimes use a
person's eagerness to please, as a way to get them to confess to a
crime they may not have committed (Texas)

Friday, August 11:
"It's really all about love. Unconditional love."
--Sylvia Verdugo, co-founder of Grandparents Supporting
Grandparents, a new support group for grandparents who
have grandchildren with disabilities (Arizona)
"We can hear them down here just laughing. You know
kids are happy when they're laughing."
--Ned Swift, whose Lake Coeur d'Alene neighbor
operates an accessible pontoon boat (Idaho)

Monday, August 14:
"He's just there to enable me."
--Allen Parton, talking about Endal, his service dog and constant
companion (United Kingdom)
"The most satisfying moment is when someone buys your work and
they don't know that you're disabled."
--Margaret Greig, an artist who makes her living selling oil land-
scapes she paints while holding the brush between her teeth (Australia)

Tuesday, August 15:
"There are a lot of kids out there who are being harassed and
tormented all the time but they don't make big waves. It has got to stop."
--Karrie Haugstad, whose daughter has won a lawsuit against her
school for failing to protect her from a fellow student who harassed her
because of her cerebral palsy (Washington State)
"No group is more heterogeneous, more diverse than people with
disabilities are. The one uniting thread we have is that we are all to
some degree denied our individuality. On this, we have formed a movement."
--Lisa Blumberg writing about a newborn with Down syndrome, known
only as "Baby Doe", whose death by starvation and dehydration in the
hospital was permitted by his parents, doctors, hospital administrators,
and the Indiana Supreme Court in 1982 (Indiana)

Wednesday, August 16:
"Nothing. Why do you ask?"
--Terry Boisot, in response to a pre-school child who asked what
was "wrong" with her son, Ben (California)
"The mountain itself, that's Mother Nature. But if it's man-made,
then it needs to be accessible to anybody."
--Jeff Pagels, a mountain climber with disabilities, talking about his
successful efforts to have an accessible toilet installed near the summit
of Mt. Rainier (Washington State)

Thursday, August 17:
"The Berlin Wall was torn down and now is the time to tear down the
walls of the nursing homes and other institutions that separate families,
divide husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, and people who wish
to be in the community."
--Fourteen-year-old Kyle Glozier, addressing the Democratic
National Convention last night (California)
"It wasn't easy but I guess we figured it wasn't going to be, and that's
why we did it."
--Souley Marzouk, on her decision to climb to a mountainside lodge
with others who use wheelchairs and crutches (New Hampshire)

Monday, August 21:
"Back some years ago, people with disabilities were hidden off in a
back room somewhere."
--Robert M. Pietsch, pastor of a church that has encouraged inclusion
of people with disabilities in its congregation and activities (California)
"They found that--surprise, surprise--most residents would prefer not
to live in a nursing home if they had a choice."
--Chicago Sun Times columnist Michelle Stevens writing about a recent
study by Loyola University and Access Living on how people benefit
from moving out of nursing homes (Illinois)

Tuesday, August 22:
"More and more, the contributions he will make to society as an adult
are clear."
--Terry Boisot, writing about her son Ben's experience with special
education, and the need for continued and enhanced funding for
educating all students (California)
"I'm not here to compete. I'm here to win."
--Stacy Kohut, self-described "adrenaline junkie" and champion of
"extreme" wheelchair sports (California)

Wednesday, August 23:
"You got to remember, the ADA standards are only the minimum."
--Atlantic Beach resident Ron Storn on what has been done to make
his state's beaches more accessible to people with disabilities (Florida)
"My understanding is there are well over 100 registered sex offenders
in the city of Manchester. These are people who are not in supervised
programs, so if communities and neighbors want to be afraid, that is a
serious issue."
--Paul Boynton, speaking on the community uproar that has developed
since neighbors learned his program plans to move two registered sex
offenders with mental retardation into a supervised duplex (New
Hampshire)

Thursday, August 24:
"A bunch of people just have to get their voices back."
--Joe Ehman, one of several disability rights activists who took over
a state office yesterday to protest cuts to independent living programs
(Colorado)
"We're starting to get a taste of freedom of information. We're
starting to get more militant about it because we know it can happen."
--Debbie Brown, a disability-rights advocate who works at the
Library of Congress, about plans for all federal agency websites
to be  accessible for people with disabilities (Washington, DC)

Friday, August 25:
"It shocks the conscience to know that in this day and age, this
type of abuse can happen in the state of Connecticut."
--Thomas Cartelli, attorney for a man who won a civil suit for
abuse inflicted on him while in a state-operated home (Connecticut)
"He's real. He's the man. He shows people what life is all about."
--Don Casson, friend of Albert Lexie, a man with a developmental
disability who was honored on the "Oprah" show yesterday
because over the last 20 years he has donated a total of $60,000
to a children's hospital (Pennsylvania)

Monday, August 28:
"All I can say is if you want to do something and you have
enough  support around you, you have to believe you can
accomplish anything that you want to."
--Scott Snook, who says the primary difficulties he has faced
while attending the University of Kansas are finding accessible
parking and wheeling himself around the hilly campus (Kansas)
"We believe access to faith is just as important to people with
disabilities as access to education and employment."
--Lorraine Thal, coordinator for the Accessible Congregations
Campaign in Bell County (Texas)

Tuesday, August 29:
"In the 121 years of its existence, this newspaper has managed to
sell newspapers by covering local news and reporting the facts as
we believe them to be. No story, save the Salcido murders which
occurred more than a decade ago, have been more disturbing to us."
--Sonoma Index-Tribune Editor Bill Lynch, writing about the
investigative series his paper has been doing regarding abuse and
neglect at Sonoma Developmental Center (California)
"He's practically my best friend."
--Lacey Tompkins, 8, talking about Ruhr, her specially trained
golden retriever assistance dog (New York)

Wednesday, August 30:
"There was no place for him to go. I had seen the state school.
I wasn't sending him there."
--Mary Belle McElligott, talking about the reasons she, with many
other parents, decided to develop community-based services for
her son Danny in the early 1950's (Ohio)
"What you don't expect is to have to drag a child out of class
kicking and screaming because he wanted to stay."
--Ella Johnson, whose son who has autism was ready for his first day
of kindergarten - three days before his mother and teacher (Indiana)

Thursday, August 31:
"We didn't want the dresser going through the roof when she
punched the button."
--University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student Sam King, talking
about adjusting the motorized lift for a dresser he and three other
students developed for a woman with a disability as part of a
class project (Tennessee)
"The real goal is to not have lawyers between the child and the school."
--U.S. District Judge Robert Cindrich who wants to end the dispute
between an elementary school and the mother of a student who has
Down syndrome (Pennsylvania)
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Dave Reynolds, Editor
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