I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the … - Tommy Douglas

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Tommy Douglas

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

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We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think.

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Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

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Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

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My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

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