Of all the roadblocks in the path of the blind today, one rises up more formidably and threateningly than all others. It is the invisible barrier of ingrained social attitudes toward blindness and the blind attitudes based on suspicion and superstition, on ignorance and error, which continue to hold sway in mens minds and to keep the blind in bondage. But new attitudes about the blind have come into being. They exist side by side with the old and compete with them for public acceptance and belief. Between the two there is vast distance and no quarter. As an example consider the following quotation: The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of information which exist. If a blind person has proper training and if he has opportunity, blindness is only a physical nuisance. (Blindness-The Myth and the Image: An Address Delivered by Kenneth Jernigan President, National Federation of the Blind At the Banquet of the Annual Convention July, 1970) https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/convent/banque70.htm
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