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
The attitudes of the people who are around him each day are the attitudes he eventually takes as his own…The individual who is warmly received comes to think of himself as a friendly person who is well-liked. – GUNNAR DYBWAD
In the cause for humanity, we must all agree that All men are human beings. All human beings are valuable. And all the rest is commentary. – BURTON BLATT
He was tracing an arc on the table with his fingers and speaking with such deliberation and care. “I was left alone a lot after Dad and the boys died….And it was just me and Mom for a long time,” […]
