Top 44 Quotes by Paul Farmer

About Paul Farmer

These are some quotes by American author Paul Farmer Educator, who was born on October 26, 1959.

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

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

Paul Farmer

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

Paul Farmer

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

Paul Farmer

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.

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.

Paul Farmer

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

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

Paul Farmer

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

Paul Farmer

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

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

Paul Farmer

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.

Paul Farmer

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Paul Farmer

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.

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.

Paul Farmer

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