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Disability - on the agenda - Information of the New Deal for the Disabled initiative and disability rights. There is also a section on the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative which provides detailed guidelines for web authors on making their pages accessible to all.
Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Text of the United Kingdom's Disability Discrimination Act, with suggested guidelines.
Advocacy Across London - Organisation providing a resource zone for independent advocacy projects in the Greater London area. Includes training, publications and a newsletter.
Disability Awareness in Action - An international human rights network, run for and by disabled people. See note.
Disability Benefits - Links to the correct pages of official government sites covering benefits for the disabled and other useful topics. Plus products and services for the disabled.
The Disability Rights Commission - Uses legal enforcement to work towards eliminating discrimination against disabled people. Includes information on disability rights, campaigns and news.
The Disability Archive UK - Provides access to the writings of disability activists, writers and allies whose work may no longer be easily accessible in the public domain.
Spastics-Society.com - Disability activists challenge the policies of Scope, formerly the Spastics Society, and accuse them of using public money to oppress the disabled by segregation.
Choices and Rights Disability Coalition - An organisation run by and for disabled people in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Identifies and challenges discrimination. Publications, services and news.
Disability Discrimination Act 1995: An Enabling Act or a Discriminating Law? - Personal page providing a detailed analysis of this Act.
Red Disability - Disability factfiles, political viewpoints and contentious news articles, plus famous disabled people including rock musicians.
Discrimination Against People Who Stammer in the UK - Information and articles about how the Disability Discrimination Act applies to stammering in the fields of employment, provision of services and education. Also about social security benefits for people who stammer.
Disability Alliance - Publishers of the Disability Rights Handbook and a leading authority on social security benefits for disabled people. Includes advice pages on benefit rights.
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Issues To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Issues I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Issues "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Issues "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Issues "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Issues "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Issues What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Issues Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Issues "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Issues Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Issues The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Issues When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Issues To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Issues He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Issues We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Issues Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Issues It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Issues Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Issues I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Issues Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Issues Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Issues
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