No acts of charity or justice can be of lasting value unless our actions are informed by a sincere understanding love that penetrates the wall of strangeness and affirms the common humanity underlying all distinction.

Pastoral Letter of U.S. Catholic Bishops on Persons with Disabilities, 1978

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