Irish - Musician | May 10, 1960 -
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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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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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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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
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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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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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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.
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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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Africa will thrive.
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