Quotes and Phrases about Aids and HIV

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

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

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

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

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

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

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

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.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

To never be sick can't be healthy.

Obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, you could have saved lives. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

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

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

Education is the most powerful weapon you can choose to change the world.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

It's hard to say goodbye to yesterday
And I'll take with me the memories
To be my sunshine after the rain

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring "Huckleberry Finn." Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.