"Let girls be girls and not brides"
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"The world needs a revolution led by women."
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"It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid."
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"We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly."
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"One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots."
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"You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you."
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"The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail."
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"One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them."
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"We are made for loving."
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"Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others."
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"I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular."
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"God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream."
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"And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' 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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"God is not a diversion."
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"I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday."
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"The universe can take quite a while to deliver."
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"To forgive is not just to be altruistic."
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"... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless."
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"Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust."
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"When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well."
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