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" A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons. "
Desmond Tutu
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" I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. "
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" I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. "
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" I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. "
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" In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. "
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" 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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