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We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can even go up and down stairs in a wheelchair.

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it's the bus - while we still have them.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.