Continents Quote by Bono

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

— George W. Bush

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

— Thabo Mbeki

Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity…

— Dalai Lama

I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way of being…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The American people are not ready for the idea that everyone has at least a moral right to good, timely health care. They do…

— Uwe Reinhardt

We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those…

— Martin Schulz

We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable…

— Barack Obama

“We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Before answering this question, we need to say a few more words about famine, plague and war. The claim that we are bringing them…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human…

— Thomas Pogge

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

— Samuel Eto'o