October 15, 2007...9:27 pm

picture of the day

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Via the Library at UC-Berkeley.

Don Galloway and Ed Roberts walking together

Don Galloway, manager of blind services, and Ed Roberts, executive director of the fledgling Center for Independent Living, in 1974 on the Berkeley campus.

“You should hope he dies, because if he lives, he’ll be no more than a vegetable for the rest of his life.”
So I decided to be an artichoke…a little prickly on the outside but with a big heart. You know, the vegetables of the world are uniting and we’re not going away!”
                   —Ed Roberts, father of the Independent Living Movement

Happy Disability History Month!

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  • Kara
    October 16, 2007 at 12:51 am

    Great picturea nd even greater quote-never heard that one and I smiled thinking of myself as a happy little artichoke. I just posted all the details on the next blog carnival which will be hosted over at my lil home on da web! You gotta come over:-)
    ~Kara

  • daisydeadhead
    October 17, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    Happy disability history month to you too! Name-dropping time: I knew Mark O’Brien personally! :)

    Before the movie THE DEPARTED made the line famous, he was the first person who told me Freud had declared “the Irish race is immune to psychoanalysis”… ain’t it the truth! :D

    Never met Ed, but saw him around. He was “famous”!

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