Archbishop Thomas Wenski

We must recommit ourselves with others of good will to build a world where human life is always loved and defended… Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.

Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals

Until I am welcomed everywhere as an equal simply because I am human, I remain a warrior on a battlefield that I must not leave.

Letter from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pastoral Statement (1978)

There can be no separate Church for people with disabilities. We are one flock that serves a single shepherd.

Pope Paul VI (1971)

It is not enough to recall principles, state intentions, point to crying injustice and utter prophetic denunciations; these words will lack weight unless they are accompanied for each individual by a livelier awareness of personal responsibility and by effective action…The Church invites all Christians to take up a double task of inspiring and innovating in […]

Norman Kunc

Why inclusion instead of segregated classes? Because no matter how talented a swimming instructor is, you can’t learn to swim in the parking lot of a swimming pool. You have to get in the water.

Mary Oliver

You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.