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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


If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.  ~Betty Reese


We cannot live only for ourselves.  A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.  ~Herman Melville


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


AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences:  suicide.  Or murder.  ~Susan Sontag


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 only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.  ~Edward Everett Hale


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


It's easy to make a buck.  It's a lot tougher to make a difference.  ~Tom Brokaw


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

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