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" As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. "

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" Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. "

" In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. "

" The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. "

" But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next. "

" It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. "

" People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. "

" We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. "

" You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders. "

" In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. "

" When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. "

" In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. "

" 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. "

" In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. "

" 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. "

" Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. "

" If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. "

" For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect. "

" I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people. "

" We would like to see you departing peacefully. "

" Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. "

" Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. "

" 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. "

" I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. "

" Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. "

" Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. "

" I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. "

" Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems. "