Aids Quote by David Levithan

“Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start to mobilize,…

— David Levithan

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It…

— Leslie Jordan

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated…

— Jean O'Leary

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all…

— Fran Lebowitz

“Later, everybody agreed the baths should have been closed sooner; they agreed health education should have been more direct and more timely. And everybody…

— Randy Shilts

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it,…

— Elton John

I felt that in certain situations, a lot of people were ignoring the AIDS issue.

— Marky Ramone

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the…

— Seth Berkley

“Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be…

— Michael Stipe

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's…

— John Cameron Mitchell

I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the…

— Cleve Jones