(1) Terry Lee's first job after graduation, landed thanks to a government program to find more employment for the visually challenged, was making telephone calls on behalf of the Bureau of Labor Insurance to get people to pay their back bills. This picture was taken at work with the dog of a colleague. (2) This picture was taken when Terry was small, and his mother took him and his three-year-old younger brother to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, where they rode around on a tricycle. (3) From eighth through 12th grade, Lee was the first trombone in the band at the Taipei School for the Visually Impaired. (4) Though sightless, Terry Lee has been far from friendless. The photo was taken at a pottery class he attended in Nantou County during his junior year in university. (courtesy of Terry Lee)

"What has frustrated me most in my life has not been that I was cast into the classes for students with learning disabilities because I lost my sight, or that I have never had the chance to see the beauties of this world. It is that I worked so hard to get into law school, but haven't been able to find a job," says Terry Lee. He only asks: "Society should make maximum use of our intelligence, not just focus on what we are lacking."

November, 2009. The Taipei District Court is hearing an environmental case that has been going through the legal process for many years-the lawsuit brought against the American corporation RCA alleging that its dumping of toxic waste in Taoyuan caused soil and water pollution and led to cancer among employees.

In the court, among the impressive looking team of attorneys for RCA, there is a "computer typing speedster" whose clicking keys cut through the air like the iron-shod hooves of a troop of cavalry. Among the six or seven lawyers of the Legal Aid Foundation representing the employee-victims on a pro bono basis, there is one lawyer, attired like his colleagues in a black robe, white cane by his side, entering the main points of the proceedings into a computer for the blind.

The attorney is listening to Ah Yao, a former RCA employee who is dying of nasopharyngeal cancer. Ah Yao, who is very weak and whose life is hanging by a thread, is accusing RCA of making the employees use cleaning fluids containing trichloroethylene, which has been classified by many national- and international-level health research and regulatory agencies as a probable or even certain carcinogenic. Although he cannot see Ah Yao's tears, the attorney feels deeply moved: "One day, without fail, I will stand in the courtroom and speak up on behalf of people like you!"