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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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We would like to see you departing peacefully.

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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

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Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

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Without forgiveness, there's no future.

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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

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I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Desmond Tutu

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

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God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

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Hate has no place in the house of God.

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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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