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

Disability Rights

We know that there is going to have to be accommodations to give us our basic civil rights. We know that. We understand that. There is a cost involved. But isn’t there also a cost involved with us not being able to exercise our rights?
Congressman Tony Coelho²

2. Congressman Tony Coelho, statement, Senate Hrgs. (May 9, 1989), p. 7.