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" In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. "

" I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. "

" God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. "

" In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. "

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

" Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. "

" Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. "

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

" We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. "

" Without forgiveness, there's no future. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" And every human being is precious. "

" God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. "

" Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? "

" 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. "

" A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy. "

" We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. "

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

" 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 God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies. "