No Pity

“A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”— The Washington Post “The primer for a revolution.”— The Chicago Tribune “Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled peop