Marilyn Berko

“Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.”
― Paul Farmer, Haiti After the Earthquake

“Human rights violations are not accidents; they are not random in distribution or effect. Rights violations are, rather, symptoms of deeper pathologies of power and are linked intimately to the social conditions that so often determine who will suffer abuse and who will be shielded from harm”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“the basis of our preferential option for the poor to say: I accompany them not because they are all good, or because I am all good, but because God is good.”
― Paul Farmer, In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
― Paul Farmer