Famous quotes containing the words protecting, public and/or health:
“America today is capable of terrific intolerance about smoking, or toxic waste that threatens trout. But only a deeply confused society is more concerned about protecting lungs than minds, trout than black women.”
—Garry Wills (b. 1934)
“He who doesnt know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“The years when we are parenting teenagers are the high point, the crest when everything seems to be in bright colors and in ten-foot letters.”
—Jean Jacobs Speizer. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Womens Health Collective, ch. 4 (1978)