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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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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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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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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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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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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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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
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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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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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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 mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
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