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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Bono
Children, Blind Spots, Age
Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered 19 May 2004

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. 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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Inspirational, Mother, Children
Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

Bono
Children, Eye, Forever
"Bono turns up the volume for social enterprise" by Joe Jervis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

Bono
Movie, Running, Children

The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue for example that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Bono
Children, Believe, Ideas
"Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

Bono
Children, Pops

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