{"quotes":[{"text":"Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.","author":"Kevin D. Williamson","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","education","free-market","freedom","health-care","libertarian","libertarianism"],"id":17216,"author_id":"Kevin+D.+Williamson"},{"text":"It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.","author":"Teri Reynolds","tags":["affordable-care-act","compromise","health","health-care","health-care-in-the-united-states","health-care-reform","human-rights"],"id":30100,"author_id":"Teri+Reynolds"},{"text":"Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.","author":"Tariq Ali","tags":["2010","affordable-care-act","barack-obama","bravery","cowardice","health-care","health-care-reform","politics","power","united-states","united-states-elections-2008"],"id":31004,"author_id":"Tariq+Ali"},{"text":"The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.","author":"David Lincoln","tags":["control","fox-news","government","health-care","political","radio","reform","tea-party"],"id":31588,"author_id":"David+Lincoln"},{"text":"Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. We call these individual racism and institutional racism. The first consists of overt acts by individuals, which cause death, injury or the violent destruction of property. This type can be recorded by television cameras; it can frequently be observed in the process of commission. The second type is less overt, far more subtle, less identifiable in terms of specific individuals committing the acts. But it is no less destructive of human life. The second type originates in the operation of established and respected forces in the society, and thus receives far less public condemnation than the first type. When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city - Birmingham, Alabama - five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism. When a black family moves into a home in a white neighborhood and is stoned, burned or routed out, they are victims of an overt act of individual racism which many people will condemn - at least in words. But it is institutional racism that keeps black people locked in dilapidated slum tenements, subject to the daily prey of exploitative slumlords, merchants, loan sharks and discriminatory real estate agents. The society either pretends it does not know of this latter situation, or is in fact incapable of doing anything meaningful about it.","author":"Stokely Carmichael","tags":["health-care","institutional-oppression","poverty","racism","racism-in-america","slums","terrorism"],"id":36975,"author_id":"Stokely+Carmichael"},{"text":"Exercise promotes positive self-image and good well-being.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["encouragement","fitness","health","health-care","healthy-living","inspirational","lifestyle","living","motivational","physical-activity","positive","positive-attitude","positive-outlook","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-image","sport","wellbeing"],"id":42573,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The thing is, you cannot ask people to coexist by having one side bow their heads and rely on a solution that is only good for the other side. What you can do is stop blaming each other and engage in dialogue with one person at a time. Everyone knows that violence begets violence and breeds more hatred. We need to find our way together. I feel I cannot rely on the various spokespersons who claim they act on my behalf. Invariably they have some agenda that doesn't work for me. Instead, I talk to my patients, to my neighbors and colleagues--Jews, Arabs--and I find out they feel as I do: we are more similar than we are different, and we are all fed up with the violence.","author":"Izzeldin Abuelaish","tags":["conflict","healing","health-care","humanitarian-intervention","reconciliation","war"],"id":42969,"author_id":"Izzeldin+Abuelaish"},{"text":"This is the opposite of the free market.","author":"Bill Maher","tags":["affordable-care-act","america","health-care","health-care-reform","health-insurance","obamacare","politics","tea-party"],"id":54567,"author_id":"Bill+Maher"},{"text":"It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["health","health-care","money","money"],"id":57171,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"The pressure to reduce health care costs is aimed only at the treatment of real diseases. There is no pressure to reduce the costs of treating fictitious diseases. On the contrary, there is pressure to define ever more types of undesirable behaviors as mental disorders or addictions and to spend ever more tax dollars on developing new psychiatric diagnoses and facilities for storing and treating the victims of such diseases, whose members now include alcoholics, drug abusers, smokers, overeaters, self-starvers, gamblers, etc.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["health-care","health-care-reform","mental-illness"],"id":72139,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}