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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.

Bob Geldof

I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
BOB GELDOF

Organization People Thinking Trade Words
Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOF

Anything People Unreasonable Well
Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
BOB GELDOF

Again Country Imaginary Universe
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.
BOB GELDOF

Depression Opposites Thinking
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOF

People Progress Trying
Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
BOB GELDOF

Happening Million Needs People Rocks
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
BOB GELDOF

Fame Most People Rocks Simple
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
BOB GELDOF

Fighting Men Way
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
BOB GELDOF

Hair Holding Wells
They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
BOB GELDOF

Facts Halls Jerry Tom
Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
BOB GELDOF

Coffee Instant Rocks Roll
Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOF

Change Changing Music World
Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
BOB GELDOF

Everybody Individual Our Poverty Problem
Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
BOB GELDOF

Inner Peace Inspirational
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
BOB GELDOF

Difficult Personality Wit
We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.
BOB GELDOF

Aids Poverty Spring Trying War

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