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NARRATOR: We’ve been here before. We must stick together. When disability rights are threatened, what gives you hope?
MYRNA: There’s going to be generations of people of different abilities. If I don’t keep working, and if we don’t see a change in the way our community treats people with different abilities, that means that my grandkids and their grandkids are going to have a life that’s not fair. We need to keep pushing on because those rights have got to be equal. There’s got to be equity for people with different abilities.
MICHELLE: What gives me hope to carry on is my ability to work with young people, because in their life experience, they have noticed that people with disabilities are all around them. And so, they have an accepting posture and they are really the future of rights and of advocacy for us.
JAYE: I get hope through the knowledge that even when things are tough right now, there is still going to be a tomorrow. And, humanity as well as disability activists, we’ve been working for, you know, years and decades and even more decades. And yeah, there will there will still be a tomorrow. And we have lived through the worst of the worst. And we will keep living. We will keep moving forward.
NARRATOR: We’ve been here before. We must stick together. Stay in touch via social media–Facebook–on our website at www.disability.state.mn.us, by phone at (651) 361-7800, or email council.disability@state.mn.us. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter.