"The general idea of the rich helping..." - Quote by Bill Gates
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.
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“As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.”
“The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.”
“The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.”
More on Justice
“Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.”
“If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.”
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.”
More on Equality
“We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.”
“All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.”