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"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."

Paul Farmer on Positive

More quotes about Positive

  • "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

    Albert Einstein on Positive

  • "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."

    Harvey Fierstein on Positive

  • "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

    Willie Nelson on Positive

  • "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

    Zig Ziglar on Positive

  • "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

    John Wooden on Positive

More quotes by Paul Farmer

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "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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