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Jan 18, 2003
"Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."
—Albert Schweitzer
Zackie Achmat, a prominent South African AIDS activist, found out he was HIV positive in 1990. In 1997 he developed AIDS. Although he can afford antiretroviral medications in 1998 he vowed to not take any medications until every single person in South Africa had access to the same drugs.
Extend yourself beyond the boundaries of your own skin. Sacrife something, however small, for somebody else.