[Nfbmo] What is Impossible?

Tue Jun 7 04:39:53 UTC 2016

Hi,

Thanks, I wasn't aware of those interests.
Bryan

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From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Roger Crome via
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Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What is Impossible?

Hi Brian,
Most certainly we all have selective hearing at times.    I definitely did
not intend to come across as argumentative.  So, I apologize for that.

The good I talked about were efforts of good will and charitable donations.
After his diagnosis of Parkinsons, he founded  a foundation to combat the
disease and provide help for those challenged with Parkinsons.  He supported
programs like Make a Wish and Special Olympics.  He traveled to developing
nations and provided support for those in need.  It's my understandingthat
he traveled to the Middle East to use his fame as a means of trying to free
Americans.  He did receive medals for some of these actions, but for the
most part, the things he did were done without fan fair.  He used his fame
and fortune to reach out and do good things that he would have been unable
to do if his fame had not happened.  Interestingly enough, he described
himself as a simple man who got lucky to have a talent that carried him to
the top.

So, to me, he is inspirational from the perspective that he could have used
his disability as a spring board to create a larger fan fair for the efforts
to impact change.  But, he did good because he could and because he wanted
to.  I wish there were more people who could use their fame to do good
rather than do good to increase their fame.
Roger

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> On Jun 6, 2016, at 8:59 PM, Bryan Schulz via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can you give an example of what good he did that I may not be familiar
with?
> No point in arguing, we all use selective hearing sometimes.
> Bryan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Roger Crome via
> Nfbmo
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 8:15 PM
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> Cc: Roger Crome
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What is Impossible?
> 
> Does the fact that he refused to fight somehow negate the inspiration that
> he was and is.  Look at all the good he did with his success.
> 
> Thank you for sharing.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Bryan Schulz via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A pet peeve is how media spins stories for only the positive side then
>> shoves it down your throat for days.
>> It wasn't impossible to dodge the draft either!
>> Bryan
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of nancy Lynn via
>> Nfbmo
>> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 5:09 PM
>> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
>> Cc: nancy Lynn
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What is Impossible?
>> 
>> That's a good quote. I always found him inspiring.
>> -Original Message----- 
>> From: Daniel Garcia via Nfbmo
>> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 4:58 PM
>> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
>> Cc: Daniel Garcia
>> Subject: [Nfbmo] What is Impossible?
>> 
>> Yesterday my nephew graduated from high school. Many speeches were given
> by 
>> various individuals including students, but the one that stuck in my mind

>> was given by the class sponsor. I do not know when she wrote the speech,
> but
>> 
>> it was timely since she quoted the late great boxer and civil rights icon

>> Muhammad Ali who said:
>> 
>> "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it
> easier
>> 
>> to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they
> have 
>> to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is
not
> a
>> 
>> declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is
> temporary. 
>> Impossible is nothing."
>> 
>> Whether we are advocating for ourselves or on behalf of someone else we
> will
>> 
>> invariably be confronted with  the sentiment that is impossible for blind

>> people to do this, or that or the other thing. When this happens, we
> should 
>> take a step back and reflect on the above quote. Through the efforts of
> the 
>> NFB, the list of things that are impossible for blind people to do is 
>> growing shorter and shorter by the day. So Muhammad Ali was correct in 
>> saying that "Impossible is temporary."
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> 
>> Daniel Garcia
>> 
>> 
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