Claim

MAIN CLAIM:

CALL TO ACTION:

Mary Fisher argues that HIV/ AIDS infects all humans not just the gay community and the ethnically varied minority of the United states.

Fisher urges the reader to take a stand to spread awareness of the issue and support the victims of the virus.

“It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old.”

“…because HIV asks only one thing of those it attacks. Are you human? And this is the right question. Are you human? Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. They are human.”

- “A Whisper of Aids”, Mary Fisher, 1992

“My call to you, my Party, is to take a public stand..”

“Each of them is exactly what God made: a person; not evil, deserving of our judgment; not victims, longing for our pity -- people, ready for support and worthy of compassion.”