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C'est La Vie...That's Life!
Sunday, 24 July 2005

I came across this speech made by Bono from the rock band U2 while surfing the net. It was a great speech and served as an eye-opener to the cruelty and discrimination which most people turn a blind eye on nowadays.

The excerpt taken from the speech:




There's a truly great Irish poet his name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and there's a line in that poem that never leaves my mind, it says: "If you want to serve the age, betray it." What does that mean to betray the age?

Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, it's foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was--which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.


Click HERE to read the whole speech

Jerrie lost herself at 11:33 PM JST
Updated: Sunday, 24 July 2005 11:41 PM JST

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