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"Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white."
"We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever."
"You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!"
"At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for those who suffered in the name of all humanity when they sacrificed everything - for liberty, peace, human dignity and human fulfillment. The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because of the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise."
"But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights."
"My son has died of AIDS."
"The march to freedom is irreversible."
"[Gandhi] said, "I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I can find God alone. If I did, I would be running to the Himalayas to find God in some cave there. But since I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him.""
"Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation."
"It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon."
"I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON."
"AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world."
"I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life."
"The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are."
"I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school."
"I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice."
"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."
"We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: That South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people."
"If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit."
"We can't afford to be killing one another."