I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

We rarely hear about clients who come in and ask for the newest social worker. That's too bad because, to me, new social workers are a gift.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.