It’s much easier to do something about a problem, and it’s much easier to spend money on the problem than it is to think hard and well about the problem – BURTON BLATT
We bring our presence to the care-giving act – nothing more, nothing less. We bring the gifts that are inherent in us and our own vulnerabilities. – JOHN MCGEE
It is my position that integration is always preferable to segregation. I believe that, in general, people want to live with their families in ordinary communities, and that most children want to go to ordinary schools. – BURTON BLATT
We cannot kill our history. We cannot sacrifice enough people to hide the truth that the evil in our time is what [an] eminent…social psychologist…has called the ‘dark ghetto,’ and not the people who live within it. – JOHN MCKNIGHT
You react with love when there is hatred, slowness when there is drivenness, softness when there is strength, flexibility where there is rigidity, humility when there is self-centeredness, and warmth when there is frigidity. – JOHN MCGEE
Community is about the common life that is lived in such a way that the unique creativity of each person is a contribution to the other. – JOHN MCKNIGHT
Warmth is what fills the cold space between you and the other. It is the gift we bring to those who are troubled. If we must be where the person is at, we must also be warm as we enter […]
