#aids

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. ↗

— Euripides

#called #console #critical #critical time #deeds

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#god #homosexuals #just #punishment #society

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#aids #center #development #health #only

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

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #country #disaster

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids. ↗

— Bill Condon

#first #first of all #grew #had #just

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #because #different #different levels #differently

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#aids #almost #been #both #decades

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. ↗

— Keith Henson

#came #captured #carried #england #found

I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open. ↗

— Janis Ian

#becoming #believed #brought #confronted #country