Summary Of Mary Fisher's Speech A Whisper Of Aids

Powerful, important, and poignant: Mary Fisher's speech “A Whisper of Aids” has empowered hundreds to thousands of people to look at the life treating disease of AIDS a different way. During this time the look at this disease was higley negative and was killing thousands of people. The disease killed nearly 150,00 americans by the summer of 1992. Fisher took a stand August 19th 1992 to defend the disease that she unfortunately was infected with. FIsher was HIV positive. Although she would rather not have this life threatening disease, she believed that in all things there is a purpose. Her purpose was to break the silence of AIDS. “In the context of an election year, I ask you, here in this great hall, or listening in the quiet of your home,