Aids
Quotes on Aids
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Susan Sontag (b. 1933) American essayist
I’ve spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever . . . And you’re telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong . . . and I’m a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don’t you remember how it was? Can’t you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt?
Mickey, The Normal Heart Larry Kramer (b. 1935) American playwright, novelist
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.
James Anderton (b. 1932) British Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police Force of the AIDS epidemic
We’re all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it’s like, what we’re going through. We’re living through war, but where they’re living it’s peacetime, and we’re all in the same country.
Ned, The Normal Heart Larry Kramer (b. 1935) American playwright, novelist
