Aids Day Quotes

• Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

  Ryan White

  Education, Lying, Hiv

  "The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945" by Steven M. Gillon, (p. 322), January 1, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

  Magic Johnson

  People, Hiv, Messengers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Kissing, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Laughter, Children

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

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• You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

  Magic Johnson

  Hug, Meals, Hiv Aids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

  Shakira

  Children, People, Tools

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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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• 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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• 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

  Sex, Character, Play

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  Susan Sontag

  Suicide, Sex, Thinking

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Hiv, Disease

  "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.

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  Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspiring, Karma, Good Life

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

  Bill Gates

  Disease, Hard, Aids

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• When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

  Magic Johnson

  Journey, Hiv, Firsts

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

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• AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

  Ryan White

  Sister, Mom, Sorry

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• AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

  Bill Gates

  Incredibles, Stigma, Subjects

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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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