Quotes About Equality

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.