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Paul Farmer Quotes

American - Educator | October 26, 1959 -

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.

Great Me World Treat Poor Borders

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.

I Am People Believe Be Different

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.

Community View Political Now Focused

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

Do The Right Thing Way Human Right

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

Best Ideas Blame World Medicine

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

End You Prove Right Rights Should

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

Health Care Country Done More Big

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.

You Look Development Things Gone

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

People Development Talk Some People

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.

Thought You Bad Wrong Know Gone

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.

Positive Support You Look Know Hard

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

Looking Forward Looking Forward Think

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