David Mixner Quotes

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• While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter Games. In fact,…
• As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the…
• I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted…
• The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population…
• Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in…
• Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.
• Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.
• At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out…
• Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the…
• Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
• My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade…
• Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents,…
• The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure…
• Sam Nunn might bring us Georgia and maybe even another Southern state but, in my opinion, at an unacceptable cost to our principles and to…
• HIV/AIDs patients depend on highly trained, specialized physicians. Each and every patient has a unique combination of retrovirals they depend on to keep them alive.
• Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research…
• Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more…
• Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug…
• All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down…
• Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected…

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