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1. "Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion." ~ Major Owens
2. "People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'" ~ Major Owens
3. "You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power." ~ Major Owens
4. "It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two." ~ Major Owens
5. "I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology." ~ Major Owens
6. "Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included." ~ Major Owens
7. "He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great." ~ Major Owens
8. "I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective." ~ Major Owens
9. "I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years." ~ Major Owens
10. "I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line." ~ Major Owens
11. "We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away." ~ Major Owens
12. "Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated." ~ Major Owens
13. "Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored." ~ Major Owens
14. "The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power." ~ Major Owens
15. "There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking." ~ Major Owens
16. "Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do." ~ Major Owens
17. "People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation." ~ Major Owens
18. "The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting." ~ Major Owens
19. "The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged." ~ Major Owens
20. "We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere." ~ Major Owens
21. "What is our greatest enemy? Segregation." ~ Major Owens

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