ONE - A Face Behind The Numbers

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6,500 Africans are still dying every day of a preventable, treatable disease,
for lack of drugs we can buy at any drugstore. This is not about charity, this
is about justice and equality.
Because there’s no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa
and, if we’re honest, conclude that deep down,we really accept that
Africans are equal to us. Anywhere else in the world,we wouldn’t accept
it. Look at what happened in Southeast Asia with the Tsunami. 150,000 lives
lost to that misnomer of all misnomers, “mother nature.” In Africa, 150,000
lives are lost every month. A tsunami every month. And it’s a completely
avoidable catastrophe.
It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates.
Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out
with equality. And equality is a real pain.
- On The Move - Speech by Bono

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