We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

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.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

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

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.