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

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

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.

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.

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

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