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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

  Mean, Should Have, Care

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• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

  Paul Farmer

  Health, School, People

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• The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

  Paul Farmer

  Thinking, World, Way

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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

  Kids, Eight, Six

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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

  Real, Rights, Sick

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• In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

  Paul Farmer

  Technology, Discovery, Humanity

  Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.144, Univ of California Press

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• I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.

  Paul Farmer

  Sleep, Treatment, I Can

  "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2004.

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

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  Country, Taken, Victory

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• I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

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  Believe, Race, Class

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

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  Jobs, Problem, Poor

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• I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

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  Thinking, Years, Vaccines

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• I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

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  Thinking, Haiti, Rebuilding

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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.

  Paul Farmer

  Promise, Care, Poverty

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• I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

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  Medicine, Depth, Height

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• 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

  Views, Ideas, Would Be

  Paul Farmer, Haun Saussy (2010). “Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader”, p.571, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Views, Community

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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.

  Paul Farmer

  Order, Lasts, Facts

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• I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

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  Thinking, Haiti, Helping

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• Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

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  Catholic, Doe, Appeals

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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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  Organization, Imagination, Adequate

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• 60% of workers surveyed said if their employer took action to support the mental wellbeing of all staff, they would feel more loyal, motivated, committed and be likely to recommend their workplace as a good place to work.

  Paul Farmer

  Support, Loyal, Action

  "ADVO Group interviews Paul Farmer, Chief Executive, Mind". news.advogroup.co.uk. May 16, 2013.

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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

  Thinking, Parent, Causes

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• Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Boston, People

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• Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Latin, Struggle

  Paul Farmer (2012). “Haiti After the Earthquake”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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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.

  Paul Farmer

  Public Health, Public Education, Public Sector

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