"If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?"

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Source : Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.206, Univ of California Press

Paul Farmer

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“I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.”
“Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.”
“The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.”
“He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]”
“In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.”
“Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.”
“David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.”
“People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.”

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