90 Inspirational HIV Quotes & Sayings about HIV/AIDS Awareness
Inspirational HIV Quotes about HIV/AIDS Awareness
“Give a child love, laughter, and peace, not AIDS.” —Nelson Mandela
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” —Mother Teresa
“I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.” —Magic Johnson
“AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.” —Susan Sontag
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Unknown
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. —Elizabeth Taylor
“I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was a kiss.” —Pat Robertson
“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
“Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.” —Wangari Maathai
“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
“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
AIDS Day Quotes
“We’ve had too many World AIDS Days.” —Richard Gere
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” —Allan Bloom
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” —Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness or a chronic disease.” —Yusuf Hamied
“I’m grateful for doing those drugs because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.” —Steven Tyler
“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
World AIDS Day Quotes
“AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.” —Bill Gates
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” —Derek Bok
“This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don’t get it.” —Robert Mapplethorpe
“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.” —Ryan White
“You can’t get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.” —Magic Johnson
“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
“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
“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
“In today’s climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.” —Maya Angelou
World AIDS Day Sayings
In the eyes of aids, everyone is equal; any of us could get it.
Make AIDS your worst enemy in the world, win the fight against aids.
Strengthen the support to weaken the spread of AIDS.
Make your voice a potent weapon to create beautiful earth, one without AIDS.
HIV Quotes and Sayings about AIDS
“HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.” —Annie Lennox
“The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.” —Marianne Williamson
“AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.” —Mary Whitehouse
“AIDS is nature’s retribution for violating the laws of nature.” —Pat Buchanan
“The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.” —Bill Gates
“From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.” —Bernie Sanders
“People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.” —Marianne Williamson
“AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.” —Nelson Mandela
“AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.” —Sam Kinison
“Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.” —Gabrielle Carteris
“Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.” —Nate Mendel
“AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS’ being some kind of divine retribution is crap.” —Calvin Klein
“The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.” —Peter Piot
“We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.” —Dustin Hoffman
“AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.” —Yusuf Hamied
“AIDS is a complex situation that’s sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.” —Niki de St. Phalle
“What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it.” —Randy Shilts
“Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.” —Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The most heavily researched disease in the history of medicine. There is currently no reasonable doubt that AIDS is caused by HIV.” —Paul Lewis
“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
“Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.” —David Mixner
“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
“Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.” —Sandra Bernhard
“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
“Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.” —Bernie Sanders
“AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.” —Larry Kramer
“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
“The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let’s give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.” —Laurie Glimche
“AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.” —Luc Montagnier
“AIDS is such a scary thing and it’s also the kind of thing that you think won’t happen to you. It can happen to you and it’s deadly serious.” —Ice T
“AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.” —Larry Kramer
“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 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.” —Bill Clinton
“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
“AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.” —Susan Sontag
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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.” —Lisa Lampanelli
AIDS Sayings and Quotes
“The most heavily researched disease in the history of medicine. There is currently no reasonable doubt that AIDS is caused by HIV.” —Paul Lewis
“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
“The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.” —Marianne Williamson
“Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.” —David Mixner
“Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.” —Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.”– Luc Montagnier
“People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.” —Marianne Williamson
“AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.” —Bill Gates
“We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.” —Dustin Hoffman
“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
“Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.” —Gabrielle Carteris
“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.” —Lisa Lampanelli
“Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.” —Bernie Sanders
“AIDS is nature’s retribution for violating the laws of nature.” —Pat Buchanan
“What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it.” —Randy Shilts
“The trouble is it’s very difficult to pinpoint 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 is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it’s up to the politicians to create “comprehensive strategies” to better treat the disease.” —Bill Clinton
“HIV/AIDS has no boundaries. ”—Annie Lennox
“Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.” —Nate Mendel
“AIDS is such a scary thing and it’s also the kind of thing that you think won’t happen to you. It can happen to you and it’s deadly serious.” —Ice T
“Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right-wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.” —Sandra Bernhard
“AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.” —Larry Kramer
“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
“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 the breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.” —Barbra Streisand
“The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let’s give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.” —Laurie Glimcher