"Justice, justice shalt thou pursue."
Deuteronomy 16:20
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Health statistics represent people with the tears wiped off.”
Sir Austin Bradford Hill
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
Elie Wiesel
“Equity is the only acceptable goal.”
Dr. Paul Farmer
“Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.”
Paulo Freire
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We need to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
“Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”
Cesar Chavez
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
Maya Angelou
"We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence."
Albert Einstein
“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”
George Takei
"Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life."
Emma Thompson
“I wish for a world that views disability, mental or physical, not as a hindrance but as unique attributes that can be seen as powerful assets if given the right opportunities.”
Dr. Oliver Sacks
“Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists, it is making a new space, a better space for everyone.”
Rachel Olivero
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
Virginia Burden
"None of us is as smart as all of us.“
Ken Blanchard
“The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the question."
Paul Tillich
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Victor Frankl
“Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.”
Stephanie Pace Marshall
“There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race.”
Toni Morrison
“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”
Mahnaz Afkhami
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Desmond Tutu
"We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it. We did not erect uneven pillars or joists, but they are ours to deal with now."
Isabel Wilkerson
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"
Rabbi Hillel - Pirkei Avot 1:14
"It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it."
Rabbi Tarfon - Pirkei Avot 2:16