“History, like God, is watching what we do.”

—  Bono

National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Context: There is a continent — Africa — being consumed by flames.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did — or did not to — to put the fire out in Africa.
History, like God, is watching what we do.

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