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“Increasingly, what people with AIDS share are not personal or psychological attributes. They do not share culture or language or a certain racial identity. They do not share sexual preference or an absolute income bracket. What they share, rather, is a social position—the bottom rung of the ladder in inegalitarian societies.”
― Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
― Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
“Some of the problems born of structural violence are so large that they have paralyzed many who want to do the right thing. But we can find more resources, and we can find them without sacrificing our independence and discernment.”
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“There is an enormous difference between seeing people as the victims of innate shortcomings and seeing them as the victims of structural violence. Indeed, it is likely that the struggle for rights is undermined whenever the history of unequal chances, and of oppression, is erased or distorted.”
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“As Phillipe Bourgois notes, paraphrasing a warning issued by Laura Nader years ago: "Don't study the poor and powerless, because everything you say about them will be used against them." I hope to have avoided lurid recountings that serve little other purpose than to show, as anthropologists love to do, that I was there.”
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“The United States granted asylum to exactly eight of 24,559 Haitian refugees applying for political asylum during that period [1981]... only 20 percent of those polled [in the US] said immigration should be easier for Haitians, while 55 percent said it should be more difficult. After a decade during which less than 0.5 percent of Haitian applicants were granted asylum, one wonders how much more difficult it could be.”
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
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