Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Shirley Chisholm

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Health care

Speaker

Shirley Chisholm

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Politician

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United States

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Citation

Chisholm, Shirley. Spoken in the House of Representatives. House of Representatives meeting. 1970, US House of Representatives, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

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We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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Source
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Time
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Churchill, Winston. "Some Chicken! Some Neck!" Joint session of Canadian Parliament. 30 Dec. 1941, Ottawa, Canada. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Some chicken! Some neck!', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.