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1. "WL's [White Liberals] think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don't believe that. There's a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It's what separates us from roaches" ~ Paul Farmer
2. "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
3. "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." ~ Paul Farmer
4. "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." ~ Paul Farmer
5. "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." ~ Paul Farmer
6. "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." ~ Paul Farmer
7. "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." ~ Paul Farmer
8. "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
9. "I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor." ~ Paul Farmer
10. "The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems." ~ Paul Farmer
11. "Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me." ~ Paul Farmer
12. "I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda." ~ Paul Farmer
13. "I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths." ~ Paul Farmer
14. "I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti." ~ Paul Farmer
15. "I'm not an austere person." ~ Paul Farmer
16. "Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects." ~ Paul Farmer
17. "The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically." ~ Paul Farmer
18. "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." ~ Paul Farmer
19. "Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody." ~ Paul Farmer
20. "I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling." ~ Paul Farmer
21. "It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country." ~ Paul Farmer

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