Niki de St. Phalle Quotes

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

Because we are all human beings, we are all HIV-eligible.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

HIV does not make people dangerous to be with. So you can shake their hands and give them a hug. Heaven knows they need it.

Until everyone knows someone who has died of AIDS this prejudice and discrimination will continue.

We are fighting a deadly disease. We are not fighting the people who have that disease. Homosexuality does not produce AIDS.

I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.

Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.