"We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles."
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"If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else."
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"When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them."
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"Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice."
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"All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid."
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"Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other."
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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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"I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that."
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"My vote is my secret."
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"I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us."
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"We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice."
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"I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love."
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"Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes."
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"All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others"
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"It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?"
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"Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels."
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"In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over."
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"I am not an afterthought I am not an accident."
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"We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that."
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"I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another."
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