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“I want to be a citizen just like any other,” said a disabled Peruvian woman in an interview with the Human Rights Watch. Her statement specifically applies to voting impediments that prevent her from participating in Peruvian elections. In 10 words, she eloquently summarized the most pressing side effect of systematic voter suppression in reference to disabled people; they are rendered second-class citizens.
Who do you consider intelligent? What is intelligence to you?
I want to start this conversation with you because I strongly feel that many intelligent people are continuously considered not intelligent just because they:
Artn’t traditionally achieved
They don’t read a lot of books, or
Aren't getting high grades on papers
Humans are the most adaptable species on the planet. With our big brains, opposable thumbs and instinct for language we have been able to explore, conquer and populate every corner of the Earth; from the driest desert and highest mountain to the Amazon basin and the cold of Siberia; we even have people living in space!
