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Of
all of the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the
most inhumane.
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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...Poor
health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass
destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such
weapons of mass destruction here at home.
-- Dennis
Kucinich Poverty
is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction,
homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction,
fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our
commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and
quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.
-- Dennis Kucinich |
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We
have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every
mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life.
The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy
and prosperous communities and nations.
~ Dr.
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"...thousands
of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy
and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions
they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective."
~ Dr.
LEE Jong-wook, WHO Secretary-General "Our
message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the
surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make
every mother and child count.
~ Dr.
LEE Jong-wook, WHO Secretary-General
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"Poor
countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without
the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking
this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers
and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines."
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All mankind... being all
equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty
or possessions.
-- John
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International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education
should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will
have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.
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Bernard Lown |
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Well-fed
people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting
resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.
-- Luiz Lula da Silva
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Life
is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
~ Marcus Valerius Martial
Love cures
people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
~ Dr.Karl
Menninger
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"Words
cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these
diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network,
I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye."
-- Alyssa
Milano |  |
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are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other
country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can
do better than this.
-- Michael
Moore |
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worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like
our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the
representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge
this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health,
education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are
being violated.
-- Evo
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"Our
motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve
the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal."
-- David A. Morse |
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