This is not about charity, this is about justice.
And that's too bad.
Because you're good at charity.
The British, like the Irish, are good at it.
Even the poorest neighbourhoods give more than they can afford.
We like to give, and we give a lot.
But justice is a tougher standard.

Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality.
It mocks our pieties,
it doubts our concern,
it questions our commitment.
Because there's no way we can look at Africa- a continent bursting into flames - and if we're honest conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Read Bono's speech in full.