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 | | Self-destructive conflict within the movement, and its gradual conversion from self-supporting, self-reliant activism to a state of dependence on establishment funding and the symbols and situations of establishment approval. |
 | | As the movement's philosophy matures, it will be recognized that employment, housing, transportation, personal care, legal equality and the like are methods and intermediate sub-goals, not final goals--and that the central concern of independent living programs and the movement should become the life quality development of staff, clients, members and public. |
 | | Almost all establishments have attempted to appease, to delay, to defeat successful reformist movements by conferring prestigious titles, powers, and benefits on token and/or completely fraudulent individuals and groups as examples of their (the establishment's) "progress," and as the basis for arguments that further concessions would be unnecessary duplications. |
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