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found this retro layout at HOT FreeLayouts.com I love these 2 quotes because they explain the 2 things I am most passionate about."The obligation of every parent is to expose their child to language. Now, hearing parents with a hearing child can do that very easily, but with a deaf child they have a problem because they don't know a language they can expose the child to. So the correct thing to do is what deaf parents of hearing children do: they go out and find hearing people to associate with their hearing child. So, too, the hearing parent of a deaf child must go out and find deaf people to associate with their deaf child."I would question whether it is proper to force a minority child to learn the majority language and culture. Is it ethical to oblige a Lithuanian child to learn Russian, a Basque child to learn French or Spanish? We recognize, in the world today, that language minorities are always endangered, that their children are always in danger of being deprived of their language. That is why the United Nations has repeatedly condemned practices which force the minority into the majority. In the Treaty on Genocide it says that no nation and no state shall force minority children into the majority culture. And in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Persons Belonging to Language Minorities, it says that children in a minority should have a chance to learn their own language."Harlan Lane-------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------"Pits have so many qualities not present in other breeds, and the love and loyalty they offer to their people is unexplainable," says Amanda Conrad, president of Pit Prints Pit bull Rescue/Rehabilitation in Canton, Georgia, with 13 years rescuing experience. "They are feared by people, maliciously blamed for things beyond their control, and targeted by laws across the country. they are abused, neglected and tortured more frequently and in more horrific ways than any other breed; yet, they possess more affection and loyalty than any human could even imagine. What other creature in this world can be starved, abused, left on a chain 24/7, fought, thrown out of a vehicle or set on fire, and yet only want to kiss the faces of their rescuers?"