![]() ![]() This year, Bono will be donating his $50,000 award to ONE and (RED). The Prize also directly benefits the charitable priority of the Laureate. ![]() Past Prize Laureates include Nelson Mandela, Bill and Melinda Gates, Desmond Tutu, President Bill Clinton, and Chancellor Angela Merkel amongst many others. The Prize focuses on and rewards outstanding contributors to bringing cultures, nations and peoples together. And though he won't have time to rest on his laurels, there's no one who deserves this award more than he does." "So, we will still need Bono to keep up his advocacy work in the months and years ahead. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, who introduced Bono. While affordable treatments have brought HIV/AIDS under control, a new pandemic left Africans at the back of the queue for vaccines," said Dr. "The causes Bono has devoted himself to remain all too relevant today. And I ask you tonight as both fanboy and critic: Can you still hold that tune?" U2 lead singer full#Even if he missed the full expression of it, in Ireland we felt its pull. " William Fulbright talked about 'the magnetism of freedom', though he was selective about it. I had a sense of America's wrestling with itself, caught in the act of becoming… becoming itself… becoming its better self. America isn't classical music, America is punk rock, America is hip-hop. I felt it was an idea, if not yet a fact. I don't know how, but I seemed to know that America wasn't just a country. They shaped the struggle for civil rights and women's rights and gay rights. "We knew that because you wrote them down, you cited them, you held yourself to account on them. We knew America wasn't living up to all its ideals, but the fact is America had ideals. We knew this promised land wasn't always keeping to that promise. We saw a country with its own long-running arguments, its own injustices. Speaking at this evening's event about growing up in Ireland, Bono said, "We looked to America. ![]() William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding for his commitment to seek justice by fighting to end extreme poverty, tackle global health crises, and spur economic development in the poorest parts of the planet. ![]()
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