Nelson Mandela Quotes About Aids

Quotes about: Aids

• AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Issues, Disease

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

• Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Done, Poverty, Sickness

  "Stars celebrate 90th birthday" by Damien Francis, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2008.

• History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

  Nelson Mandela

  Fighting, Judging, Bears

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

• Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

  Nelson Mandela

  Cancer, People, Giving

  "Mandela's son dies of AIDS at 54", www.cnn.com. January 7, 2005.

• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Laughter, Children

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

• 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.

• AIDS is our number one enemy. This enemy can be defeated. While the research for a cure continues, four principles -- love, support, acceptance and care for those affected -- can make us winners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Acceptance, Numbers, Support

• My son has died of AIDS.

  Nelson Mandela

  Son, My Son, Aids

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

• We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Leader, Political

• HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, People, Dying

• On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

• AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Malaria, World

  "'In face of the threat posed by Aids we must rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save people'" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

• We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fighting, Aids, Wells

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.397, Pan Macmillan

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