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"The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically."
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"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."
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Personal Development
"Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them."
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Personal Development
"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."
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Personal Development
"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation."
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Personal Development
"You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business."
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Personal Development
"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."
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Personal Development
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
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Personal Development
"Therefore, states are equal in natural rights."
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Personal Development
"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
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Personal Development
"Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes."
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"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."
Criticism
"We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible."
Health
"I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim."
Will
"Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water."
Medical
"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."
Health
"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."
Health
"The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically."
Rights
"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat."
Kids
"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."
Creativity
"At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease."
Time
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