simply persons ... who do great deeds out of mixed motives

1974, January 6 

“We are simply persons: frail, feeble, funny creatures who do great deeds out of mixed motives. In this world great happenings come out of the most incredible and unfitting circumstances. Should we be less than thankful for them?”

[Source: Rose Flannigan (Mrs. Eric G Flannigan, Jr.), ECW President, in a letter to the “Ladies” of the Diocese of North Carolina.]