Aids Quotes - Page 4

• Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

  Norman Angell

  People, Evidence, Humans

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• I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

  Harvey Fierstein

  Couple, Years, People

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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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• It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

  Bruce Davison

  People, Healthy, Suffering

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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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• Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Understanding, Awakening, Hiv

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 7, p. 165, 1955 - 1975.

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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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• It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

  Barbara Lee

  Life And Death, Humanity, Survival

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• Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

  Wangari Maathai

  Doubt, Hiv, Monkeys

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• I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?

  Richard Stearns

  Children, Believe, Our Generation

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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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• To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do

  Judith Light

  Mean, Gay, Rights

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• AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Scary, Serious

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• That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fighting, Reality, Pandemics

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• My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

  Ryan White

  Years, Names, White

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• The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Quilts, Humor

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• The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

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• Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

  Ralph Fiennes

  Fighting, Keys, People

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• It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Sex, Ignorance, People

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Dec 01, 2013

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• HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

  Princess Diana

  Kissing, Hands, People

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• We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Hiv, Aids Day

  "Fighting Stigma: Why the Depiction of Illness Matters" by David M. Kirby, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2016.

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• We did not purify... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses. They were very different... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

  Luc Montagnier

  Typical, Different, Shapes

  "Did Luc Montagnier Discover HIV?". Interview with Djamel Tahi, July 1997.

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• Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

  Wangari Maathai

  Viruses, Flags, Secrecy

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• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

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