[Care giving] requires the display of affection and certain intrusions into the locked up spaces of marginalized people and the rigid barriers of a cold culture. […]
Friendships with people who have disabilities can provide an explosion of fresh values and directions which this confused, misdirected world needs now as never before/ – […]
Optimism is not in believing that things will turn out well, objectively, But in believing that one can face things, subjectively, however they turn out. – […]
As the power of profession and service system ascend, the legitimacy, authority, and capacity of citizens and communities descend. The citizen retreats. The client advances. – JOHN MCKNIGHT
We need to…not [focus] on control, but trust; not [seek] compliance, but engagement; not [be preoccupied] with external behavior, but moral development; not [impose] change on others, […]