David Levithan Quotes

We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.

We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

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

Social inequality kills. It unduly deprives individuals and communities experiencing social deprivation of their health, increases their burden of disease and disease, and cuts short their lives.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

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

How can we continue to condone a system which heals those who can pay but says to hell with those who can't.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

The FDA first began prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood in the early 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the risk from blood transfusion was just beginning to be understood. In the decades to follow, the 'lifetime ban' was left largely unchanged.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.