Ryan White Quotes

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• Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
• Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
• My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
• Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
• I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
• Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
• A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.
• Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.
• Even at church, people would not shake my hand.
• Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
• Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.
• How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
• I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.
• I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.
• I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
• Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
• Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.
• My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
• On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors…
• People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

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