Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments, by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society. …
Fundamental Principles of Disability, 1976
For us as disabled people it is absolutely vital that we get this question of the cause of disability quite straight, because on the answer depends the crucial matter of where we direct our main energies in the struggle for change. We shall clearly get nowhere if our efforts are chiefly directed not at the cause of our oppression, but instead at one of the symptoms.
UPIAS & DIsability Alliance