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Paul Farmer


American
October 26, 1959
Educator
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Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.


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I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.


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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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The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.


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I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
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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.
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One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.
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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
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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 how can we broaden the view.
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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.
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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.
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In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.
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I don't know much about climate change. But I'm pretty sure we better figure out what to do to lessen its impact - at least its health impact - and that's not going to happen unless you have a lot of young talent interested in these topics.
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