Bono accepted the Chairman’s Award from the NAACP Image Awards recently. He gave a great speech. Watch it here:
Some highlights:
“From a group who taught the world about civil rights its time to teach them about human rights.”
“This is not about charity. This is about justice. Justice and equality.”
“True religion won’t let us fall asleep in the comfort of our freedom.”
“Love thy neighbor” is not a piece of advice, it’s a command. And that means that in the global village, we’re going to have to start loving a whole lot more people.
“His truth is marching on.”
“Where you live should not determine whether you live or whether you die.”
“And to those in the church who still sit in judgement on the AIDS emergency…
God has a special place for the poor. The poor are where God lives. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is where the opportunity is lost and lives are shattered. God is with the mother who has infected her child with the virus that will take both their lives. God is under the rubble and the cries we hear during wartime. God, my friends, is with the poor, and God is with us if we are with them.”
“This is not a burden, this is an adventure. Don’t let anyone tell you it cannot be done. We can be the generation that ends extreme poverty.”
Another video from the awards show:: The Roots performing a tribute of Sunday Bloody Sunday/Pride/War (what is it good for?):
Via: Bian Bailey
I see this as a huge call to action in Africa, but what about Waxahachie, Ellis County, Dallas County, Texas and America?
These are cries that we as Christians should stand up behind. “God, my friends, is with the poor, and God is with us if we are with them.”
To Jerusalem, Judea, and the ends of the earth
