Posts tagged "society"
We have two Auroras that take placeevery single day of every single year! … The United States is responsible for over 80 percent of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined. Considering that the people of those countries, as human beings, are no better or worse than any of us, well, then, why us?
In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man named David Kirby — his body wasted by AIDS, his gaze locked on something beyond this world — surrounded by anguished family members as he took his last breaths. The haunting image of Kirby on his death bed, taken by a journalism student named Therese Frare, quickly became the one photograph most powerfully identified with the HIV/AIDS epidemic that, by then, had seen millions of people infected (many of them unknowingly) around the globe.
I’ve always found this image as haunting as it is powerful.
Look at it from the brighter side guys.
That is something really important to remember: when we win this, it’s only the beginning. This can’t only be about “us”.
