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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
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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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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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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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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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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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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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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
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We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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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 wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
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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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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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