Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONOSub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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