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Excerpt from: Human Rights: Myth Or Reality There is no question that human rights for mentally retarded persons, young and old, are a reality, that they exist. That evidence is all around us. But there is also the reality that there are all too many people who keep on denying this reality, who call these human rights a myth, a fantasy, wishful thinking, and worse.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Human Rights: Myth Or Reality | |
| From: | Speeches Of Rosemary F. Dybwad | |
| Creator: | Rosemary F. Dybwad (author) | |
| Date: | 1976 | |
| Format: | Speech | |
| Source: | Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family | |
| Keywords: | Activists; Advocacy; Canada; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Down Syndrome; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Family; Human Rights; Identity; International League Of Societies For The Mentally Handicapped; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Massachusetts; Medicine & Science; Mental Retardation; Parenting; Pearl Buck; Policy; Rosemary Dybwad; Sexuality; Special Education; Sterilization; The Arc; United Nations | |
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| Note: | Speech delivered at the British Columbia Association for the Mentally Retarded, Victoria, British Columbia. |
