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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Somewhere I once wrote that while illnesses are man’s curse, handicaps (stigmas attached to illnesses) are his invention. – BURTON BLATT

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. […]

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 […]

Are we as good as we like to think we are…? – BURTON BLATT