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It could be
said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by
the human race against itself.
-- Princess Anne Ireland
Princess Royal Of Great
Britain
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
1942-, British Filmmaker,
Artist, Author
We're all
going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while
the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as
if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and
not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're
living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime,
and we're all in the same country.
-- Larry Kramer
I have learned
more about love, selflessness and human understanding in
this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in
the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
-- Anthony Perkins
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AIDS obliges
people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst
consequences: suicide. Or murder.
-- Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist
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
1933-, American Essayist
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.
-- Barbara Streisand
1942-, American Singer,
Actress, Director
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
1940-, American Writer
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