Aids Quotes - Page 3

• We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

  Jerry Doyle

  Cancer, Childhood, Enemy

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• I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

  Marlee Matlin

  Hearing, Firsts, Normal

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• Stigma hurts. Because of AIDS, children are bullied, isolated and shut out of school. They are missing out on education. They are missing out on medicines. Children are missing your love, care and protection. Join me. And become a stigma buster. UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Children, School

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• AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

  Susan Sontag

  Taken, Population, Awareness

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• Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

  Ashley Judd

  Believe, Condom Use, Aids Epidemic

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• If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

  Marlee Matlin

  Today, Hearing, Recycling

  "Interview with Marlee Matlin Actress and Academy Award Winner". Interview with Douglas Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. October 18, 2004.

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• AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

  Luc Montagnier

  People, Support, Important

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• If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Sex, Safety

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• From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Alcohol, Drug

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their childhood, their future but most importantly, they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Real, Fighting

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• This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Scary, Hiv

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

  Mary Whitehouse

  Hiv, Judgment

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• African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

  Elijah Cummings

  African American, Female, Cases

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• We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

  Bob Geldof

  Spring, War, Trying

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• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Country, Children, Commitment

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.

  David Saperstein

  Community, Fabric, World

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• AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

  William J. Clinton

  Fighting, Medicine, Hiv

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• Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  Europe, America, Hiv

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• Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Gay, Thinking

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• There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa.

  Puff Daddy

  Brother, Boys, Epidemics

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• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  Kurt Loder

  Country, Thinking, Drug Use

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

  Loretta Devine

  Thinking, People, Hiv

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• Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

  Basil King

  Inspirational, Courage, Live Life

  "The Conquest of Fear". Book by Basil King, Chapter I : Fear And The Life-Principle, § XI, p. 29, 1921.

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• Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

  Nelson Mandela

  Giving, Hiv, Way

  "Mandela at Sunset" by Andrew Meldrum, progressive.org. October 2007.

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