Quotes By Bono
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
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You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
Bono
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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