Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Paul Farmer
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 26
Anthropologist
Human Rights Activist
Medical Anthropologist
Physician
North Adams
Massachusetts
Often
Medical
Political
Patient
Care
Critical
Problem
Clean
Real
Sick
Destitute
Vote
Haiti
Rights
Patients
Water
Civil
More quotes by Paul Farmer
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 that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.
Paul Farmer
I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.
Paul Farmer
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
Paul Farmer
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 of HIV disease.
Paul Farmer
You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
Paul Farmer
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Paul Farmer
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.
Paul Farmer
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.
Paul Farmer
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
Paul Farmer
Equity is the only acceptable goal
Paul Farmer
We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.
Paul Farmer
I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.
Paul Farmer
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
Paul Farmer
People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.
Paul Farmer
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul Farmer
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
Paul Farmer
You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.
Paul Farmer
I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.
Paul Farmer
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
Paul Farmer
Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.
Paul Farmer