Mount St. Mary's College

"Imagine a circle of compassion and imagine nobody standing outside that circle, and to that end your task as you go forth is to stand with those on the margins and to stand with those whose dignity has been denied. Insist that nobody stands outside the circle of compassion. … You stand with the disposable because you long for the moment we stop throwing people away. In fact, as you go from the Mount, you stand at the very margins because you hope that the margins themselves will disappear because you’ve chosen to stand there."