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See Disabled and Forgotten by Michael J. Gerson.
http://www.capitalcommentary.com/human-dignity/disabled-and-forgotten
Putting people with intellectual disabilities at the center of our concern affirms that every human community is a continuum of ability and disability.
 

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Terry, thanks for sharing this fine article. In the past, a lot of people involved in justice work have ignored people with disabilities, even though they, as a group, are the poorest of the poor and the most oppressed of the oppressed in any society. When counting people with intellectual, sensory, and physical disabilities as well as people with mental illnesses, one is talking about 20 percent of the human population. It's so good to see that little by little, this vast portion of humankind (at least 1.3 billion people) are getting ignored less than they used to. 

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