Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Disability Discrimination

Authorities on disability have often said, and I have quoted them on this floor before, that the history of society’s formal methods of dealing with people with disabilities can be summed up in two words: segregation and inequality.
Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.¹

1. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., statement, Cong. Rec., v.134 (April 28, 1988), p. S5107.