Ricki Landers (pictured working out) wouldn't hear of it when an organizer of the "Free Our People March" from Maryland into Washington, D.C., asked only those with powered wheelchairs to continue the last 5 miles.
"John said he would push for me," she said, in case she got tired pushing her manual chair.
It was one of hundreds of protests the tireless activist for disability rights either joined or led, often times resulting in her arrest.
"I would rather go to jail than a nursing home,"