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Quotes By Dr. Luigi Di Bella and sung by Renee Samuels.

1 - Di Bella says he is the victim of “jealousy, incompetence and ignorance".
2 - "I’m afraid of being killed by those who use other methods."
3 - "I do not inject poison into the body to kill these cells."
4 - "It is noble to end a pain."
5 - "I hope to reduce the disease and to assist people doing the true, deep good."
6 - "I don’t need any more proof, there are already ten of thousands of people who I’ve helped."
7 - "To light up a smile of peace and hope on a bewildered face."
8 - "To bring a light in the desperate darkness of a fatal prognosis."
9 - "I would say that my treatment is preferable than the methods being used now."
10 - Meanwhile, Di Bella’s supporters keep on believing.
11 – "The purpose of a doctor is to heal."

Dr. Luigi is the controversial cancer cure doctor from Italy.

Crusading unravels the making of a media issue with the quiet and deliberately paced takes of an eight-year-old halting singing from a sheet of quotes made by Dr. Luigi Di Bella in a crusade for his unorthodox treatments for cancer. The power of public sentiment surrounding this story seems to have given the media license to exploit the issue on a global level that is actually affecting change within the medical profession. Dislocated from the story the young singer appears to reference an anchor person on a TV news show and obviously does not understand what she has been given to read, nor does she feel any need to disguise her disinterest and boredom. The resulting sequences are humourous and poignant as we contrast the innocent honesty of a child with the highly manipulated but supposedly objective deliverance of “the anchor man.”

- excerpt from Zoe Hardy's essay "Seeing Crusading"