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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

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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. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. ↗

— Paul Farmer

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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

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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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Canadians are so easily wounded. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

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The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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