<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> Thanks for the excerpt. <div class=""> I’m not sure if it answered the question of just what is Federation Philosophy? </div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Marianne Denning <<a href="mailto:marianne@denningweb.com" class="">marianne@denningweb.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I copied this from the NFB web page.</div><div class="">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">This I</div><div class="gmail_extra">s </div><div class="gmail_extra">so true but we have to struggle against those low expectations every day. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Darian Smith via Community-service <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:community-service@nfbnet.org" target="_blank" class="">community-service@nfbnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Hi all,<br class="">
As you are aware, The community Service Division is a Division of the National Federation of the Blind. As such, we adhere to the policies of the Federation and believe in it’s philosophy.<br class="">
Now, what do you know or believe to be the philosophy of the NFB?<br class="">
Darian<br class="">
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