HEALTH
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Nothing
will benefit human health and increase chances
for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution
to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein
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Sickness
is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it
must husband its resources to live. But health
or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare,
runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and
creeks of other men's necessities.
-- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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"The
first wealth is health."
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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"...In
a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed
as social justice work." -- Paul
Farmer
“If
access to health care is considered a human right,
who is considered human enough to have that right?”
-- Paul Farmer
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"Clean
water and health care and school and food and
tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things
should constitute a set of basics that people
must have as birthrights."
-- Paul Farmer
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"Our
health relies entirely on the vitality of our
fellow species on Earth."
~ Harrison Ford
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Medical
science has proven time and again that when the
resources are provided, great progress in the
treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can
occur.
~Michael J.
Fox
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Even though I'm not running anymore,
we still have to try to find a cure for cancer.
Other people should go ahead and try to do their
own thing now.
-- Terry Fox
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea
is one of the leading causes of child deaths in
the world.
-- Melinda Gates
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We
started our foundation because we believe we have
a real opportunity to help advance equity around
the world.. to help make sure that, no matter
where a person is born, he or she has the chance
to live a healthy, productive life.
--
Melinda Gates
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"It
will take a massive effort to move society from
corporate domination, in which industry's rights
to pollute and damage health and the environment
supersede the public's right to live, work, and
play in safety. This is a political fight. The
science is already there, showing that people's
health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep
building the movement, networking with one another,
planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our
children's futures, and those of their unborn
children, are at stake."
~ Lois
Gibbs
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"The
main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis
is that in order to protect public health from chemical
contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a
choir of voices--by the American people demanding change."
~ Lois
Gibbs
When
it comes to global health, there is no 'them'... only
'us.'"
-- Global Health Council
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It's
important for people of color to link up with
issues around globalization, food security, health,
the environment.
-- Danny Glover
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"...
leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas
that only we as 21st Century people can talk about:
making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people
receive a living wage, making sure the environment,
the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not
destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they
eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable
for the damage they do not only to our environment but
to our institutions."
-- Danny Glover
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"Ionizing
radiation may well be the most important single
cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic disorders...
The stakes for human health are very, very high
in radiation matters. It is essential that people
take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing
radiation databases which cannot be trusted."
-- Dr. John Gofman
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Do
you realize that $150 billion of our tax money
is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy
people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special
regulations? That money would be available for
health and education and building bridges.
-- Doris
Haddock (Granny D)
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We
have proven that with a clear vision of a better
tomorrow, a strong dose of determination, and
the hard work of many dedicated people, we can
ease suffering and save lives around the world.
-- Dr. Victoria Hale
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If
you have health, you probably will be happy, and if
you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth
you need, even if it is not all you want.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation,
which are as necessary as reading. I will rather
say more necessary because health is worth more
than learning.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
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women
are the victims of war... as widows they've faced
the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods
of families are affected. A lot of gender-related
problems come up in terms of health, education,
domestic violence, etc.
-- Kumari
Jayawardena
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Every
day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart
disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that,
in much of the world, the act of giving life to
a child is still the biggest killer of women of
child-bearing age?
-- Liya Kebede
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The
message of our campaign is "Make every mother
and child count". This campaign is not just about
health. It is also a powerful call for radical
progress in women's rights and the rights of their
children. Too often, the health of mothers and
children does not count. In too many parts of
the world, they are forgotten.
-- Liya Kebede
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"...the
gross national product does not allow for the health
of our children, the quality of their education
or the joy of their play. It does not include the
beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages,
the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity
of our public officials. It measures neither our
wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our
learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion
to our country, it measures everything in short,
except that which makes life worthwhile. "
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I
think it's important for me as an actor that I
say these are the issues I'm going to be committed
to. One of them for me is women and children's
health around the world and their rights;the other
is ovarian cancer.
-- Nicole Kidman
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"Everyone
should have health insurance? I say everyone should
have health care. I'm not selling insurance."
-- Dennis Kucinich
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For Health
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World
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