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" 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. "

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" 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 God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. "

" You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Hate has no place in the house of God. "

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

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

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