Paul Farmer Quotes

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• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics…
• ...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
• People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.
• I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure…
• Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
• At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications…
• I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
• I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
• I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what…
• The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money
• The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
• What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
• In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even…
• There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously…
• Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of…
• The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask…
• The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
• If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
• That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.
• With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

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