"I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . ."
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"You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident."
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"The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ."
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"If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women."
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"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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"No future without forgiveness."
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"I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone."
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"I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world."
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"Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things."
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"There is no justice in killing in the name of justice."
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"When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption."
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"When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation."
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"If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention."
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"God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back.""
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"Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you."
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"Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic.""
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"I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen."
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"I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been."
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"If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!"
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"My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation."
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