“We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink.”

—  Bernard Lown

Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)
Context: We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.

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