Health Rights Quotes

Everyone, without distinction as to economic and social conditions, has the right to the preservation of his health through the highest standards of food, clothing, housing and medical care which the resources of the State and community can provide. The responsibility of the State and community for the health and safety of its people can be fulfilled only by provision of adequate health and social measures

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

Voting is our right, but it is also our responsibility because if we don't take the next step and elect leaders who are committed to building a better future for our kids, other rights - our rights to clean air, clean water, health, and prosperity - are placed directly in harm's way.

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.

A Patients' Bill of Rights is at the center of our national existence.

We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

I believe all children deserve quality health care.

Health care is a fundamental right of all citizens, not simply a commodity available to the highest bidder.

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

A person's health is not for sale, it's not for trade and it's certainly not available for blackmail.

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

I strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Everyone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.

Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.

I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Now, why would my supporters be supporting somebody who doesn't want to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a starvation wage, doesn't want to do that. Why would anybody that supports me support a candidate like Trump who wants to throw millions and millions of people off of health insurance? We need to guarantee health care to all people as a right, not throw millions of people off health insurance as Trump wants to do.

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.