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[W]e need to teach the person to feel that it is good to be with us, doing things together, and eventually doing things for us out of mutual trust – JOHN MCGEE

You and I are all that is needed to change the world.  Our necessary confrontation is not social.  It is personal.  The battle is not against society but with oneself. – BURTON BLATT

[M]any vulnerable people are primarily disabled by their segregation from community life in institutions, ‘special’ programs, or service ghettos. – JOHN MCKNIGHT

[Care giving] requires the strength of the recognition of our interdependence. – JOHN MCGEE

The lucky man has been taught to love, because he has been loved. He has learned to care, because he has known those who care. He can give something he values, because he has been given all that it priceless. […]

[A]s human service tools prevail, the tools of citizenship, association, and community rust.  Their uses are even forgotten. – JOHN MCKNIGHT

[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.   – JOHN MCGEE

Optimism is not in feeling good, But in feeling that good has a chance to survive. – BURTON BLATT

Care giving calls for much more than the ordinary way of doing things. – JOHN MCGEE

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/ – GUNNAR DYBWAD