“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.”
“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.”
“Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.”
“When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.”
“We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.”
“The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.”
“A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust [them]. Often it is people who have been there [in a similar situation to the people he or she is leading]. They would generally be people who are ready to take the risks themselves. Most leaders would be people who don't ever give commands and remain at home and let the foot soldiers be the ones who bear the brunt.”
“I have a lot of time for young people.”
“Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.”
“God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.”
“People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.”
“You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.”
“Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.”
“Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."”
“The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.”
“You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.”