Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.
Interpretation
Healthcare should be accessible to all individuals as a fundamental right, rather than a privilege that can be bought or sold.
This quote by Jim Wallis emphasizes the moral imperative that healthcare is a fundamental human right, not something that should be treated as a market commodity. It argues that the best interest of society lies in ensuring that all individuals have access to healthcare services, regardless of their financial means, highlighting the need for a more equitable and just system.
In practice
In a speech advocating for universal healthcare policies.
Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.
Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.
You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
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