Roberts asked, “What’s a life living in an institution or a nursing home? Not much of a life. Yet we spend billions and billions of dollars on these. What we have to do is break that money loose from very strong special interests and move it into the community and deal with quality-of-life issues. We do not want to be segregated.” And that’s exactly what the Independent Living (IL) movement strives for: cross-disability access to life in the community.
