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Category Archive: October 26

Andrew Motion Quote: “If people connect me with the…”

Motion Quote, Wordsworth poem in form of tree in graffiti mural
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If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

November 3, 2018 1952, Andrew Motion, English, October 26, Quotes by Poets

Leon Trotsky Quote: “England is nothing but the last…”

Trotsky Quote, view from under the bridge of Westminster and Big Ben in London UK
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

October 31, 2018 1879, Leon Trotsky, October 26, Quotes by Revolutionaries, Russian

Paul Farmer Quote: “Haiti is always talking about decentralization…”

Farmer Quote, mother and infant child with concealed smile in Haiti
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Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn’t have them anywhere else.

October 31, 2018 1959, American, October 26, Paul Farmer, Quotes by Educators

Paul Farmer Quote: “The essence of global health equity…”

Farmer Quote, clean unused syringe in sink at hospital
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The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

October 28, 2018 1959, American, October 26, Paul Farmer, Quotes by Educators

Paul Farmer Quote: “I’ve been working in Haiti 28…”

Farmer Quote, rocks at clear blue sea shore in Haiti
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I’ve been working in Haiti 28 years – I thought I’d sort of seen it… I’ve gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I’d seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.

October 23, 2018 1959, American, October 26, Paul Farmer, Quotes by Educators

Paul Farmer Quote: “For me, an area of moral…”

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

October 20, 2018 1959, American, October 26, Paul Farmer, Quotes by Educators

Amy Chua Quote: “I do believe that when your…”

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school’s curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn’t work hard enough.

October 9, 2018 1962, American, Amy Chua, October 26, Quotes by Educators

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