There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we can not only change a life or save a life, but we can also make it possible for other people to speak up. If we harness the collective power of people's voices around America to address the opioid epidemic, I have no doubt that we can overcome it.
What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for the times we live in today and that's what I always find fascinating about them, but then it's like the walking dead, you know, the unconscious, and the metaphors for them are just really something I was inspired by.
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this country because of the ease of bringing heroine in. We have to secure the border.
Bullying is a national epidemic.
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. . . . Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans. . . weighs as much as the other two.
Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
HIVAIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.
The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.
We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.
