"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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"Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years."
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"If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening."
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"It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success."
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"Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner."
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"To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo."
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"Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath."
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"Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself."
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"It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart."
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"All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries."
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"For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too."
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"I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal."
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"It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness."
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"Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them."
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"God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven."
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"Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others."
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"The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time."
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"Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant."
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"We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side."
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"What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong."
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