You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Dokte Paul works with both hands — that is, both with science and with the magic necessary to remove ensorcellments.
Children get dealt grossly unequal hands, but that is all the more reason to treat them equally in school, Chris thought. I think the cruelest form of prejudice is... if I ever said, 'Clarence is poor...
Beyond mountains there are mountains. - Haitian proverb
On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success.
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.
Everything is quantified, he said. Whether it’s the technology or the way people use it, it has an insidious ability to reduce things to less than human dimensions.
Montaigne blessed the form when he said, If I knew my own mind, I would not make essays. I would make decisions.
At the level of the microcode, physical and abstract meet. The
To an outsider, building a school before there was a medical clinic, or someone to deal with the problems of hunger and homelessness, was illogical, but Farmer and Lafontant understood that the school...
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
One time I listened to Farmer give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and in the midst of reciting data, he mentioned the Haitian phrase looking for life, destroying life...
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from...
Central imperative of liberation theology—to provide a preferential option for the poor—seemed like a worthy life’s goal to him. Of course, one could pursue it almost anywhere, but clearly the doctrin...
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I...
In the sixties there was proposed a National Data Bank, which would, theoretically, improve the government’s efficiency by allowing agencies to share information. The fact that such a system could be...
Megalomaniacal.
I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after your...
The view reminded of the Haitain proverb Beyond mountains there are mountains which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next.
We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios to patients here, suddenly the international health community jumps on you for crea...
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