Patricia Deegan Quotes
- I believe it is a spirit of hope that gathers us here together today.
- People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.
- The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.
- We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of…
- The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.
- We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of…
- The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.