Paul Farmer Quotes

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

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.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

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

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.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

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