*
I
am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize,
oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever
we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For
it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity,
the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability
of our current political debate, that keeps us
from finding new ways to meet the challenges we
face as a country. It's what keeps us locked in
"either/or" thinking: the notion that we can only
have big government or no government; the assumption
that we must either tolerate forty-six million
without health insurance or embrace "socialized
medicine."
-- Barack Obama
*
"Society
may be formed so as to exist without crime, without
poverty, with health greatly improved, with little,
if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness
increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever
intervenes at this moment except ignorance to
prevent such a state of society from becoming
universal."
-- Robert Owen
The
welfare and the future of our societies depend on our
capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health
of every mother and child.
~ Jean Ping, President of the UN General Assembly
*
Kids
are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't
be in this day and age, and it's that kind of
thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough
-- Brad Pitt
*
Let
us be the ones who say we do not accept that a
child dies every three seconds simply because
he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let
us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that
your place of birth determines your right to life.
Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be
bold."
-- Brad Pitt
"Well
being of the society is linked to safe mothers and childhood."
~ Honourable Anbumani Ramadoss, Minister of Health and
Family Welfare, India
*
Free
education and health care are essential for the
welfare of the population.
-- José Ramos-Horta
*
We
live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable
are no longer part of the scientific community's
vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials
that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease
and injury but eliminate them.
-- Christopher
Reeve
*
Your
emotional state has a tremendous amount to do
with sickness, health and well-being. For years,
my husband and I lived on -- and because of --
hope.
-- Dana Reeve
*The
time has come to end this charade. The debts are
unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I
would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we
need this money to meet the needs of children
who are dying right now so we will put the debt
servicing payments into urgent social investment
in health, education, drinking water, control
of AIDS and other needs.'
-- Jeffrey Sachs
The
essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme
poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out
of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources
to address any of the public health crises that Africa
faces.
-- Jeffrey Sachs
Sometimes
the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly
to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom
to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition,
or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or
the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered,
or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.
In other cases, the unfreedom links closely to the
lack of public facilities and social care, such
as the absence of epidemiological programs, or of
organized arrangements for the health care or educational
facilities, or of effective insititutions for the
maintenance of local peace and order. In still other
cases, the violation of freedom results directly
from a denial of political and civil liberties by
authoritarian regimes and from imposed restrictions
on the freedom to participate in the social, political
and economic life of the community. -- Amartya Sen
*
Of
all the anti-social vested interests the worst
is the vested interest in ill-health.
-- George Bernard
Shaw, 1911
*
"My
goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy
world for our children. Before I leave this world,
I want to be satisfied that at least I tried.
I know I can make a difference, even if it might
only be a small one." -- Maisie
Shiell
*
“Children
who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods
rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage.
They are less likely to develop weight problems,
diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of
cancer”
-- Dr. Benjamin
Spock
It's
bizarre that the produce manager is more important to
my children's health than the pediatrician.
~ Meryl Streep
*
“A
real medicine can only exist when it penetrates
into a knowledge which embraces the human being
in respect to body, soul and spirit.”
-- Rudolf Steiner
“The
result [Republicans winning the Senate] would
be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment,
civil liberties, Social Security and health care,
as well as corporate accountability.”
-- Barbra
Streisand
*
People
are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer
health insurance.' We are the only industrialized
country in the world that does not have national
health insurance. We are the richest in wealth
and the poorest in health of all the industrial
nations.
-- Studs Terkel
I
read somewhere that when a person takes part in
community action, his health improves. Something
happens to him or to her biologically. It's like
a tonic.
-- Studs Terkel
*A
society is judged by the way it cares for its
most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am
ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions
of our children. I want to do my part to rectify
this terrible situation.
-- Marlo
Thomas
Every
child deserves a chance at a life filled with
love, laughter, friends and family. We are working
to find the cures that will give these youngsters
a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces
an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find
hope at St. Jude -- a place where miracles can
and do happen.
--
Marlo
Thomas
Every
child deserves a chance
at a life filled with love,
laughter, friends and family.
--
Marlo
Thomas
"Be
careful about reading health books. You may die
of a misprint."
-- Mark Twain
*
We,
The World is dedicated to bringing about a new
vision of a world where every life matters. In
this world, societies are organized to cultivate
holistic health of body, mind and spirit in which
individuals look upon themselves and all other
life with compassion, caring, cooperation and
goodwill.
--
Rick
Ulfik
Poverty
is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes
to education, health care, political participation
and advancement of one's own culture and social
organisation.
-- Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
On
issue after issue, the polls -- and these are
not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent
period of time -- show that most Americans share
what one could call core liberal or progressive
values: investment in health care and education
over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate
accountability over deregulation; environmental
protection over laissez-faire policies; defending
Social Security and Medicare over privatizing
them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating
it. The country prefers progressive alternatives
to the failed policies of the conservative right.
-- Katrina
vanden Heuvel
The
greatest wealth is health.
~ Virgil
*
I
believe that humanity has an uphill battle to
wage in its fight to attain real health, and I
honestly believe - from hard-earned experience
- that homeopathy can offer some solution to this
problem.
-- George Vithoulkas
*
War
and the preparation for war rob resources from
human security. As long as we honour war and warriors
we maintain fear and hate, always based on ignorance;
and fear is the enemy of learning, it gives ignorance
its power. As long as we misplace money for weapons
– we keep water polluted, we keep far too many
women illiterate and unskilled, we prevent health
care and education from being universally enjoyed
– we promote poverty. These are among the root
causes of violent conflict.
--
Cora Weiss
*
"A
federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient
measure of social justice, to ensure health, education,
and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the
children born into the world, would mean such a
release and increase of human energy as to open
a new phase in human history." -- H. G.
Wells
*
“We
must not leave the health of our families and
protection of the world ecology to corporations,
governments and military organizations preoccupied
with profit, power and armed conquest. Rather,
we must take that responsibility into our own
hands. It’s up to us to come together across cultural
and political divides to prevent these military-industrial
polluters from degrading the earth and threatening
the well-being of our communities for their own
selfish interests.”
-- Craig
Williams
Health
is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being,
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
~ World Health Organization, 1948
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