Sean Strub famous quotes

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.
-- Sean Strub

#Years #People #Dying

More often than not, media coverage now mentions HIV-positive people in criminal contexts.
-- Sean Strub

#Media #People #Criminals

Decriminalizing bodies - this is a big and growing movement.
-- Sean Strub

#Movement #Growing #Body

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.
-- Sean Strub

#Compassion #80s And 90s #People

The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.
-- Sean Strub

#People #Hiv #Phenomenon

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.
-- Sean Strub

#Children #People #Hiv

There are laws that only apply to people with HIV - we're becoming a viral underclass.
-- Sean Strub

#Law #People #Hiv

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.