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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

“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.”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“The person had to fall. Because if he didn't fall that meant the demon was powerful and the pastor needed to come at him even harder. You could be a linebacker in the NFL. Didn't matter. That pastor was taking you down. Good Lord, that was fun.”
― Trevor Noah, Born A Crime Stories from a South African Childhood / Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“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