Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Finding Balance

This historic civil rights legislation seeks to end the unjustified segregation and exclusion of persons with disabilities from the mainstream of American life. . . . The ADA is fair and balanced legislation that carefully blends the rights of people with disabilities . . . with the legitimate needs of the American business community.
Attorney General Richard Thornburgh¹⁰

10. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, quoted in “ADA: A Special Issue,” p. 24.