"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water."

-- Paul Farmer

#Real Quotes #Rights Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”

Source : Leif Enger (2009). “So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel”, p.287, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.”

Source : Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1994). “My Dearest Daughter: A Letter from the Death Cell”
“People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.”
“I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random physical processes in an environment which simply happened to have the right properties. As a Christian I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.”
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
“I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.”
“when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
“If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?”

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