 Dr. Lovell Jones
Director
Center for Research on Minority Health M.D. Anderson
Besides the I Have a Dream Speech, one of the most quoted phrases of Dr. Martin Luther King involved our health care system. He despised the inequities involved in treating the health of those in the Black community. Years later, Barack Obama continues to carry that torch, expanding is fight to include all Americans.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
“I think it should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills–for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that.”
Source: 2008 second presidential debate against John McCain Oct 7, 2008
Speeches are often dissected into quotes or sound bites to capture the essence of what a man is as he invites others to embrace his beliefs. Focusing on ten topics, The Defender has taken excerpts from various speeches of these two great men to share what they accepted as truth.
The interpretation of these truths is given from a community perspective as local leaders were asked “How do the quotes of these two men impact our race, our nation and our world?
Sonceria Messiah Jiles
Chief Executive Officer
Defender Media Group
Donald Bowers
Asst. VP, Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Captain P.J. Matthews
Curator, Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
Rod Paige
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Ada Edwards
Former Houston City Councilwoman
Dr. Lovell Jones
Director, Center for Research on Minority Health M.D. Anderson
Jackie Martin
J.S. Martin Associates
Former United Way of Houston President
Dr. John Rudley
President, Texas Southern University
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