Here's a quote from a commencement address by the late David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, which Time magazine included on its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list. Foster was speaking to Kenyon College’s graduating class of 2005. The full address has now been issued in book form as This Is Water, by Little, Brown, and Co. We think this quote speaks to our social work values and what we do for people every day.
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
How about you? Is there a quote that you think speaks to the values we, as social workers, hold dear?
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That whole address is really great. DFW went through years of drug counseling, rehab, and mental health services. He didn't make it unfortunately, but without the social work profession he wouldn't have been able to write his incredible books.
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