"We are sometimes called the ‘French Doctors,’ which is rather unfair to our sister organizations in Europe created during the past ten years…We all share a common bill of rights and duties, and we all base our activities on the philosophical assumption that the sufferings of human beings, wherever they appear, can be considered neither as a ‘foreign’ preoccupation, nor as a state property. Clearly this means we have a moral duty to react to these sufferings, in one way or another, and that this reaction cannot, and should not, be stopped by national borders..." Dr. Rony Brauman President, Médecins Sans Frontières Philadelphia Liberty Medal acceptance speech, July 4, 1991 AND
		"We call for a new era of peace and democracy, and we call for freedom – not just freedom of expression or the freedom of election – but freedom from want, sickness and deprivation. These same principles united, in different circumstances and different moments, George Washington, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Jefferson, San Martin, Benjamin Franklin, Jose Marti, Abraham Lincoln and Benito Juarez. Now let them unite in this new challenge that awaits" Dr. Oscar Arias Philadelphia Liberty Medal acceptance speech, July 4, 1991