Outside The United States
The NFB is a participant in the World Blind Union and maintains strong relationships with various groups of blind people in other countries. In the UK, there is a similar organization known as the National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom.
Read more about this topic: National Federation Of The Blind (United States)
Famous quotes containing the words united states, united and/or states:
“I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls’ curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.”
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