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NARRATOR: We’ve been here before. We must stick together. When disability rights are threatened, what gives you hope?
DAVID DIVELY: What gives me hope is seeing our younger adults and younger children out there. I get to see the new ways they see the world. How much more accepting and inclusive they are of people that are different from them. They give me a lot of hope. I see my kids talking about what disability is and it’s so different than previous generations, and it gives me hope that while the days are hard, the long arc is going in the right direction.
DAVID FENLEY: What gives me hope when disability rights are threatened? I really, I’m really impressed by watching up and coming generations. So when I say up and coming generations, I’m thinking more of like the people who are small right now. I watch them interact with all sorts of different people. And the way that they treat and view disability, I feel is much more natural and much more, much more part of just everything as opposed to segregated or those people over there. I really feel like it’s more innate in them to include folks rather than have to be taught to include people. So that really does give me hope. It’s it’s these generations that are coming up behind us.
LINDA: What gives me hope is art, humanity, love, lovely family members, nature, the Milky Way, the aurora borealis, the stars, the moon, nature, love, art. That gives me hope.
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.