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When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.