Quotes from Paul Farmer

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.

Writing: When Rock Around the Clock was shown in the cinemas in 1956, teenagers got so excited by the music that there was dancing in the aisles. Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter who has just been to see the film. Write your 'story' for tomorrow's paper.

Managing inequality almost never includes higher standards of care for those whose agency has been constrained, whether by poverty or by prison bars.