Enforcing Normalcy Quotes

“Throughout the USA hundreds of people, most of whom are poor and members of minorities, are languishing in jails and mental hospitals, their rights to a speedy trial, due process, and justice abandoned. These people have two things in common – they are deaf and they cannot sign or speak.”
― Lennard J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

“Sign language occupies the interstice where space and silence come together; sign language is the locus where the body meets language.”
― Lennard J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body

“As such, the Deaf do not regard their absence of hearing as a disability, any more than a Spanish-speaking person would regard the inability to speak English as a disability.”
― Lennard J. Davis, Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body