In this article, Wolf Wolfensberger (Director of the Training Institute at Syracuse University, one of the world's foremost developers of Social Role Valorisation and is the founder of citizen advocacy) notes that in contemporary society many non disabled people see those who do have disabilities in a negative light but this wasn't always so. He looks at some of the attitudes of the past, such as higher religions who attributed sacredness to all human life, which we could learn from. Keyword: Attitudes