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“In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is tremendous debt on humanity, it is one of the most underdeveloped areas and where the worst pandemics exist. In many incidents the European powers that colonized them are now not even capable of helping them.”

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Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.”

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Author:Gloria Reuben

“Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.”

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Author:Martin Filler

“I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.”

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Author:John Green

“As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.”

“That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.”

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Author:Lois Capps

“One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.”

“Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating this deadly pandemic.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

“For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.”

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Author:Margaret Chan

“Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.”

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Author:Margaret Chan

“It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.”

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Author:Barbara Lee

“No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.”

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Author:Laurie Garrett

“All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.”

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Author:Margaret Chan

“The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.”

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Author:Nathan Wolfe

“A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.”

“After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.”

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Author:Margaret Chan

“Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.”

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Author:Margaret Chan

“For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.”

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Author:Margaret Chan