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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.

Bono

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.
BONO

Country People Resistance
For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
BONO

Littles Lost Moments
I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
BONO

Causes Celebrities Thinking
Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
BONO

Helping Jesus World
I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
BONO

Darkness Importance Mean People
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO

Coal Cost Oil
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONO

Kings Real Thinking
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
BONO

Divides Issues People
It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO

Cynical Sweet Teeth
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
BONO

Inspiration Motivation People
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
BONO

Art Must Understand
Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO

Change Inspirational Music
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONO

Emotional Feelings Originality
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
BONO

General Much People Rich
God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
BONO

Ideas might Tiny
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops

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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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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