Gregory Meeks: “I wonder, where is this compassion we often hear talked about? Compassion. You know, where I come from, they have this…”

“I wonder, where is this compassion we often hear talked about? Compassion. You know, where I come from, they have this saying; they say that talk is cheap. Put your money where your mouth is. When we talk about HIV-AIDS, we can talk about it and talk about how bad it is and talk about how awful it is, but you know what? That talk means nothing. We need to put our money where our mouth is. Until we do that, we are doing nothing but whistling Dixie. It is time for us to reverse that, to understand that this world is much smaller than it was just 10 years ago. If you do not believe it, let us not put our money where our mouths are. You think the epidemic is over there; but you know what, there is a boomerang, and what goes around will come around.”