We are gentle people. We seek non-violent ways to teach people to feel safe with us, to feel loved by and loving towards others, and learn that it is good to be with others and us. – JOHN MCGEE
Are we really opposed to giving little children, particularly helpless handicapped children, all the help we could give? Is not there some misunderstanding somewhere? We all do love children, you know. – GUNNAR DYBWAD
That [N. and W. Buildings at our state schools] continue to exist is either a massive indictment of our collective intelligence and relatedness or a colossal testament to human inertia or our incompetence. – BURTON BLATT
The logical and moral position to take is a reverence for life, and what I call a unity of life position that values the life of each and every human, and opposes all intentional dead-wishing and deadmaking. – WOLF WOLFENSBERGER
Modern medical systems are usually dealing with maladies – social problems – rather than disease. Maladies and social problems are the domain of citizens and their community organization. – JOHN MCKNIGHT
Hence…this insistence on thinking of people in a normal way…is so very important, because it leads you to think more and more of people as human beings. – GUNNAR DYBWAD
We do not suffer so much the lack of structural architects and interior designers as we do the absence of ideational architects and moral interventionists – BURTON BLATT
If we do not watch it, society may take away both individual living arrangements and grouped ones, and give us back the large, snake pit institutions. Pressures – and even tendencies – to do so have actually never gone away. […]
No community was ever built by a group of ‘full,’ unneedy, undiseased people. Communities are built in spite of the dilemmas, the problems, deficiencies, and diseases of its people – JOHN MCKNIGHT
