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“Over the long haul, allowing other people into our heart and soul, and sharing things that are closest to you, helps you to become a different person… It allows you to find the real person that you are.”
Linda Wittish |
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“I think we learn, at least for myself, we learn how wrong some of our stereotypes are. I have met a lot of nice people in a neighborhood that I thought was not so nice.”
Saunders Aldridge |
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“We encourage relationships between people who would ordinarily not meet and we diminish the fear people have of one another.”
Kristin RusselL |
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“Social marginalization, social deprivation is one of the worst things I can think of subjecting someone to… I see one of the reasons why we do citizen advocacy as being to free people from that.”
Sean Brandon |
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“We are living in a very system- filled world. There are systems and institutions for everything, for children, for elders. The citizen advocacy organization is working to create something that is more personal, heartfelt.”
Sabrina Simmons |
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“Citizen Advocates often seem to re-define who people really are. The experts have a definition of who people are and it ends up being really different than what a citizen advocate learns.”
Susan Earl |
