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Julius Erving
The Great and Wondrous Dr. J
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. When you become a world champion, you're not automatically respected. You're immensely popular because of that, because of the media coverage and exposure, but respect is something that you garner by going through the long hard route of giving it, and receiving it, and making it solid, and it's a permanent situation. To have the respect of a lot of people and to be a respected person is so much more important to me at this stage in my life. If I had not won a world championship in basketball, I think that that would probably still be there. That's really what counts to me.
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Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
Paul Farmer: Initially it wasn't in Harvard at all. I'm not sure that we would have anticipated that it would fit in a research university. I wouldn't have guessed that when I was a medical student. And so I'm afraid it was quite conventional to start with. There was the notion that you needed partnership. Again, it's not rocket science. The notion that it would need to be long-term? Not particularly rocket science either. The notion that you have to link a resource-rich setting like Boston or Harvard? That was obvious too, because all of us who were doing any kind of connection were living links between a world of great poverty and a world of affluence.
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Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
What we need to do is build local capacity. Again, these are almost clichés now in development work. So that meant a Haitian organization, or in Rwanda that means a Rwandan organization, or in Malawi a Malawian organization, et cetera. And that's what we try to do, was to say, "It's not about us. It's not about our own quest for personal efficacy." And again, this may be a lesson that's worth sharing with people who would look at your web site is, "It's gonna feel like it's about you, and your own quest for personal efficacy, or discovery of yourself, but it isn't about you. It's really about the people that you're serving." Those are hard lessons to learn, because -- I don't think -- I'm not just talking about young Americans, but I'm saying, in general, young people who are achievers, who get to go to school, who could even have a computer or electricity, it really puts -- hopefully, I hope that we'll soon see laptops all over the world, and that poor people also have access to information technology. But right now we don't have that. We have this digital divide.
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Suzanne Farrell
Ballerina Extraordinaire
One of the hardest things that I ever had to do was to be in a situation where I suddenly didn't have any real control or any of the stability or security that I had always with the dancing. But I had just recently gotten off crutches and I was determined to walk up to this platform and give this speech, in high heels, even if I was slightly listing to one side, and tell these people about what it was like to be a dancer. And what it was like to be a dancer who couldn't dance any more. And I remember I started to cry because, first of all, I wanted to make my point. I could be admired as a dancer, but I also wanted to be admired as a person. And I said to them that I had to work very hard to become a dancer, but now I had to work even harder to get back any little thing, just to be able to walk, let alone dance.
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