some words from Bono

“Fifteen thousand African are dying each day of preventable, treatable diseases–AIDS, malaria, TB–for lack of drugs that we take for granted.  This statistic alone makes a fool of the idea many of us hold on to very tightly: the idea of equality.  What is happening to Africa mocks our pieties, doubts our concern and questions our commitment to the whole concept.  Because if we’re honest, there’s no way we could conclude that such mass death day after day would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.  Certainly not North America or Europe, or Japan.  An entire continent bursting into flames?  Deep down, if we really accept that their lives–African lives–are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out.  It’s an uncomfortable truth.”
- Bono

“We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies–but will be be that generation?  Will we in the West realize our potential or will we sleep in the comfort of our affluence with apathy and indifference murmuring softly in our ears?  Fifteen thousand people dying needlessly every day from AIDS, TB, and malaria.  Mothers, fathers, teachers, farmers, nurses, mechanics, children.  This is Africa’s crisis.  That it’s not on the nightly news, that we do not treat this as an emergency–that’s our crisis.  Future generations flipping through these pages will know whether we answered the key question.  The evidence will be the world around them.  History will be our judge, but what’s written is up to us.  We can’t say our generation didn’t know how to do it.  We can’t say our generation couldn’t afford it.  And we can’t say our generation didn’t have reason to do it.  It’s up to us.”
- Bono



 Although Bono talks about Africa, there is injustice, poverty, death in other parts of the world that can't be ignored.