"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
Dom Helder Camara
posted by drew @ 11:37 AM
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Thursday, May 25, 2006
Dom Helder Camara
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when i kill millions in the name of equality they call me a communist - Mao
stop changing the subject.
Doing business is sexy. Trade is sexy. Aid is not sexy if you’re an African. Africans don’t want aid but they need aid. What they really want and what their heart desires and what they truly deserve is trade as a way out of their present circumstances; to do business and the dignity of doing business together on an even playing field.
-- Bono
We have to be very careful where that (investment) aid goes and that is going to be unpopular with some of our activists and it is going to be very unpopular if you’re in a country where your government is not deserving of this new investment and you’re left carrying the can. Oddly enough, it is the activists here on the continent of Africa who are doubly hard on this point. We have to listen to them. They are saying, do not invest in our countries while we have crooked leadership. They’re saying it and I think we have to listen to them. That is hard. That is depressing.
We are coming out of the adolescence of optimism, where we thought just putting on our marching boots and pulling a big number could transform the lives on the continent of Africa. You can’t.
There were people campaigning alongside without any conditionality. I don’t agree with them. I don’t agree with the burdensome conditionality that forces liberalization but I do agree with conditionality of tackling of corruption. I think we are growing up.
For somebody who by my trade should be more suited to barricades than the negotiating table, that is part of growing up. The problems are much more complex than we thought they were and I think Africans must have been smiling and cringing at times when they saw us just thinking that money could solve their problems.
-- Bono
oh you see right to the core of me... please let me work.
hey how come we all live in correct communitic countries?
Good those starving children will bring more money into the country. I will take that money and the starving kids can kiss my ass.
I need these kids; without them bleeding hearted idiots wouldn't fund my corruption.
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