Paul Farmer Quotes

What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are mo...

Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights vio...

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We...

Human rights violations are nit accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights vio...

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

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard...

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

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough...

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

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

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, ...

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, ma...

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would mak...

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to m...

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mind...

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My p...

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard...

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that n...