Comparing Mrs. Shriver’s 1987 Speech to the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
In 1987 Mrs. Shriver gave a speech letting our Special Olympics athletes know how much they are needed in the world that tells them that they don’t matter. The speech is the Special Olympics Bill of Rights. And the speech goes like this:
The right to play on any field?
You have earned it.
The right to study in any school?
You have earned it.
The right to hold a job?
You have earned it.
The right to be anyone’s neighbor?
You have earned it.
I believe that what Mrs. Shriver saying is that we can do more in our lives then what people tell us. We are playing on any field. We have the right to go to any school to study at. We can have a job and keep it. And we can be anyone’s neighbor because we live in the community with everyone and we can be a part of the world. Here’s what I believe, if we are given a chance we can do whatever we went to achieve in life.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons (CRPD) with disabilities helps uphold the rights of people with all types of disability in 173 Countries.
Mrs. Shriver Start the Special Olympics to help people with ID through sports. Sports is a great way to bring people from the athlete’s neighborhood together. The right to study in school. Special Olympics Inclusive Schools is our great way for everyone to learn together in a Safe place. Here is what the convention says:
Be treated with respect.
To be safe and enjoy life.
Be part of your Community and do thing you enjoy.
Vote and be a member of an organization.
Let’s see how Mrs. Shriver’s words and the CRPD are the same or different from one other. Let’s get start with seeing which of these the same are:
The right to play on any Field? Mrs. Shriver
To be safe and enjoy life. Be part of your community and do the things you enjoy. The UN
What does the Convention mean to me? Well it means that I can be Garrie and not a nobody without feeling and someone who can’t have a voice. The convention has made me think more about people who live in other place. Not just the U.S. and how the convention will help them. When they may not been able to have someone to help them. I have able to meet a Special Olympics athlete Nyasha from Africa. He is a wonderful person who is going to help his athletes and friends. As he is a Sargent Shriver Global Messenger and international board member and the newly elected head of the athlete Congress. I am believer that with the help from Mrs. Shriver and Convention we can Change the hearts and minds of people who think we still need to be hidden. Here’s what I would tell those people who think that we should stay hidden, we are everywhere and we are not going to be told to hide anymore.
