Ryan White Quotes

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.

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

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

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!

You should only get AIDS and die, you pig.

CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world.

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide

It's not so much whether you're gay or not, but whether you can own up to being gay and still have your job or serve your country.

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

The law faculty see no reason why any young woman who in respect to character and acquirements fulfilled the Conditions applicable to male students, and who chose to attend the law lectures in good faith for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the laws of her Country, should be denied that privilege.

Never again are we going to have a little old lady, sick as a dog, turned away from a hospital because she has no money.

Universities—and medical schools in particular—should go out of their way to recruit good students of every race from … less affluent backgrounds. Over time, such efforts could produce a greater cohort of doctors who are better prepared to relate to the patients who need them the most.

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

The problems of the disabled are unpopular.

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

I think one of the most important things we can do for people is to expand opportunity - whether it's the opportunity to live a life free of discrimination or the opportunity to get a good job that provides a gateway to the middle class. I've dedicated my career to expanding opportunity, and it's proven incredibly rewarding.