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.
Itβs a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.
Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the earth, water, wind, stars, and sunshine. When you realize that everything has led to the present, to this moment, you see there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be burdened by. The present moment is the moment of arrival - and it took the entire universe to create it. All is as it should be.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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