To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.Bono
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
Bono
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Bono
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
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Bono
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