| "It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself." »Anne |
| "The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one." »Tom Hanks |
| "AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder." »Susan Sontag |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone." »Barbara Ehrenreich |
| "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 |
| "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 |
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