aids Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about aids.
“My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.”
- Harvey Fierstein
“Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.”
- Douglas Wilson
“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.”
- Ryan White
“I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.”
- Emma Thompson
“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.”
- Ryan White
“The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.”
- Armistead Maupin
“I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.”
- Jello Biafra
“I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.”
- Emma Thompson
“We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.”
- Paul Farmer
“It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.”
- Paul Wolfowitz