Aids Quotes

• AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

  Sarah Polley

  Fall, Our World, Civilization

  Interview with Roxanna Bina, www.ifqmag.com.

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• Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

  Peter Piot

  Community, Together, Poverty

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• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Believe, Destiny

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

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• We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Army, Self

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Selected Works”

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• The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

  Simone Weil

  Race, Color, Needs

  "Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation" (1943)

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• The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Effort, Cost

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• The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Giving, Intellectual, Useful Knowledge

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done

  David Cameron

  Country, Promise, Done

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• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  Sam Kinison

  Compassion, People, Disease

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• I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Strong, People, Support

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• Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Mother, Children, Fighting

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• I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, Baby, Fighting

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• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, New York, Gay

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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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• The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

  Barbra Streisand

  Country, Years, Perfect

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• My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

  Thom Gunn

  Confused, Annihilation, My Thoughts

  "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

  Derek Jarman

  Christian, Men, Epidemics

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Claudio Hummes

  Majority, Viruses, Hiv

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• AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

  Luc Montagnier

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

  Douglas Wilson

  People, Design, Hiv

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• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  Jean O'Leary

  Different, Hiv, Stories

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• Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

  Serge Lang

  Blood, Hiv, Blood Transfusion

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.618, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

  Serge Lang

  Drug Use, Hiv, Disease

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.622, Springer Science & Business Media

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• When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

  Jim Wallis

  Sex, Leader, President

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. April 29, 2004.

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