James Orbinski Quotes

• As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

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  Reality   Doctors   Speaks Out  

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• The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

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  Silence   Indifference   Forget  

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• Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

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  James Orbinski (2009). “An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline”, p.4, Random House

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• The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other. Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics can become genocidal.

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  Knowing   Political   Feelings  

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