The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

  • -- Paul David Hewson 保罗·大卫·休森

事实上,我们这一代人是第一代能够正视疾病和极端贫困的人,能够跨越大洋来到非洲,并且说到做到。我们不需要忍受这些。整个大陆都被一笔勾销了——我们不必忍受这种情况。

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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

每一代人都认为自己比前一代人更聪明,比后一代人更聪明。

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

人们可以如此冷漠。他们继续忽视真正陷入贫困和无家可归的人。几乎发狂。

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

我们的祖父不得不跑,跑,跑。我们这一代人上气不接下气。我们不能再跑了。

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

贫穷不是犯罪的根源。