*
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
"Shamefully,
the United States remains the only major country on
earth that does not guarantee health care to all people.
The United States must move toward a Medicare-for-all
single-payer system. Health care is a right, not a
privilege."
~ Sen.
Bernie Sanders
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