November 19, 2025

“‘Historians may one day point to Alcoholics Anonymous as a society which did far more than achieve a considerable measure of success with alcoholism and its stigma; they may recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action, a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering, one having vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind.’”

From The Lasker Award, presented to AA in 1951, AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1952, “The Vision of Tomorrow,” The Language of the Heart