...After a standing ovation, [Ross] Bleckner said he knew that people would look back on that time and ask, "Where were you then? What did you do to try to make things better?"
"Since we started this dinner 22 years ago, when it was just a few people in a restaurant somewhere in Chelsea, that did make things better," he said. "You did it by showing up here year after year, because you understood there is no true culture without empathy."