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.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Unless some other factor is operative, in large, weak and underpopulated states, the luxury of ostentation prevails over that of comfort; but in countries which are more populous than extensive, the luxury of comfort always diminishes ostentation.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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