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

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Human Rights, End, Rights

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

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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be doled out by benevolent well-wishers, but as Casement said at his trial, as those rights to which all human beings are entitled from birth. It is this spirit which underlies organizations like Amnesty International, with its belief that putting someone in prison solely for his or her opinion is a crime, whether it happens in China or Turkey or Argentina and Medecins Sans Frontieres, with its belief that a sick child is entitled to medical care, whether in Rwanda or Honduras or the South Bronx."

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"I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."

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"Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"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."

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"Terror doesn't change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people."

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

Paul Farmer, American Educator

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"For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act."

"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat."

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

"It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care."

"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."

"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've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."

"I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory."

"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."

"So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable."

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