"Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity"
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"In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me.""
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"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility."
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"Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that."
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"You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't."
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"To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo."
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"The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours."
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"The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong."
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"You must show the world that you abhor fighting."
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"Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime."
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"Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail."
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"Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy."
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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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"As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you."
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"We can only be human together."
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"And every human being is precious."
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"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."
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"Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place."
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"The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future"
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"We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free"
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