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“Managing inequality almost never includes higher standards of care for those whose agency has been constrained, whether by poverty or by prison bars.”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“Should the frenzied quest for access to power and wealth be regarded as serving a social good simply because those who were historically underrepresented in the past are now filling roles that involve replicating inequality?”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“In this increasingly interconnected world, we must understand that what happens to poor people is never divorced from the actions of the powerful. Certainly, people who define themselves as poor may control their own destinies to some extent. But control of lives is related to control of land, systems of production, and the formal political and legal structures in which lives are enmeshed. With time, both wealth and control have become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. The opposite trend is desired by those working for social justice.”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“This is how justice dies, Tom. It dies the moment someone with the power to act chooses comfortable inaction over moral duty.”
― Laureline Ducros, Spy Dust