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.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.
That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.
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