[CT-NFB] Quote

[Justin Salisbury]

HI Deb,

It's true! A lot of times, this also applies to our efforts to advocate for ourselves. We can have all the intellectual points and counter-points, but if they don't believe in us, those low expectations pull the drain plug on everything we said. 

It's also true with organizing. If people are told "you're welcome here" and "we hear what you are saying," but then they act like they really don't care what you're saying, it doesn't make you want to come back. Those kinds of personal relations are so important. 

A lot of people in the Federation right now are in the process of making fun of a nonprofit that claims to empower and serve the blind, but then they fill up their social media with disability inspiration porn. It really shows that they don't believe the words that they say about blind people, independence, equality, etc. What really motivates people is what they feel. 

Stay well,

Justin


Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury
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Cesar Chavez



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Everyone,
I heard this quote from Maya Angelou on PBS,”People will forget what you say, they will forget what you do but they will remember how you make them feel.”

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Deborah J. Reed
“Live the life you want, blindness is not what hold you back.” National Federation Of The Blind 






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