"...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could……" — Paul Farmer
"...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work."
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56 Quotes by Paul Farmer
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should…
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People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great…
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I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those…
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.
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At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges…
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I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
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I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused…
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The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when…
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The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
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What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
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In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries…
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More Inequity Quotes
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never…
— John F. Kennedy
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Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity…
— Paulo Coelho
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I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.
— Rosa Clemente
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Humanitys greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through…
— Bill Gates
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Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for…
— PZ Myers
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The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on…
— John Kuhn
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...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here…
— John Cassian
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Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have…
— Roxane Gay
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Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity
— Bill Gates
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Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in…
— Bill Gates
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Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking…
— David Blankenhorn
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Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to…
— Carson Kressley
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