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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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"Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that."

"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother."

"The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries."

"One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions."
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"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."

"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."

"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."

"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."

"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."

"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."

"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."
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