AIDS
"Despair is a state of mind to which I refuse to surrender."
-Arthur Ashe
Source: Days of Grace: A Memoir
In 1979, Arthur Ashe suffered from a career-ending heart attack and went through heart surgery. In his second heart operation in 1983, he received blood carrying the HIV virus. In 1988, Ashe was diagnosed with AIDS.
AIDS Awareness
"I have been an activist on many issues in the past - against apartheid, for education and the athlete, the need for faster change in tennis. I will continue with those projects in progress, and will certainly get involed with the AIDS crisis." |
"Whatever happens to me, I hope that people will continue to support the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS. As its name declares, it exists not simply to help fight this terrible disease but to help conquer it."
- Arthur Ashe
Source: Days of Grace: A Memoir
"For me, the hope is that maybe there is no cure for AIDS in time for me, but certainly for everyone else."
- Arthur Ashe, on the television show "Fighting Back"
Source: Days of Grace: A Memoir
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