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Ignorance and prejudice are fuelling the spread of a preventable disease. World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS.... [I]t's up to you, me and us to stop the spread of HIV and end prejudice. ~worldaidsday.org, 2006
Started in 1988, World AIDS Day is not just about raising money, but also about increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done. ~avert.org, 2006
It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. ~Elizabeth Taylor
On this day, let us pay tribute to those whom HIV/AIDS took from us too soon, and let us recognize those who continue to fight for a world free from AIDS. Let us also recognize researchers, providers, and advocates, who work each day on behalf of people living with HIV, and in honor of the precious lives we have lost to HIV. Together, we can forge a future in which no person — here in America or anywhere in our world — knows the pain or stigma caused by HIV/AIDS. ~Barack Obama, 2015 November 30th, quoted from The White House Office of the Press Secretary
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Author Unknown
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ~William Hazlitt
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880), "Address to the Young"
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~Robert F. Kennedy
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown
Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom
The most violent element in society is ignorance. ~Emma Goldman
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. ~Henry David Thoreau
If you judge people you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa
I am but one
But I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But I can do something.
What I can do I ought to do,
And what I ought to do,
God helping me, I will do.
~Anonymous, in The Standard, 1902
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ~Sydney Smith
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike, 1860
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw, as quoted in John C. Maxwell, The Success Journey, 1997
Find a need and fill it. ~Ruth Stafford Peale
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabian Proverb
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin
Never, never, never give up. ~Winston Churchill
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm
When in doubt, wear red. ~Bill Blass
My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife. ~Edwina Currie
Now AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag, AIDS and Its Metaphors, 1989
People with diseases like AIDS and cancer feel an urgency in straightening out their lives, examining their purpose, and confronting the reality of death. Ironically, in spite of the physical and emotional pain they experience, many of these patients express gratitude for this opportunity. The encounter with their own mortality changes their priorities in life, their values and aspirations. For many, it makes them truly cherish life and the ability to give and receive love. ~Jeff Seibert
Or we can embrace another tradition of politics — a tradition that has stretched from the days of our founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another — and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done for the people with whom we share this earth. ~Barack Obama, World AIDS Day Speech, 2006 Dec 01
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