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Fred Hollows Quotes

d. 1993 New Zealand

Frederick Cossom Hollows AC (9 April 1929 – 10 February 1993) was a New Zealand-born ophthalmologist and humanitarian who devoted a great part of his life to the eradication of curable blindness among the underprivileged communities of Oceania, Asia and Africa.

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To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

Every eye is an eye. When you are doing surgery there, that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the Prime Minister or King.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fred Hollows (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.