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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And every human being is precious. "

" 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. "

" God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" In God's family, there are no outsiders, no 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 wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The universe can take quite a while to deliver. "

" You must show the world that you abhor fighting. "

" We would like to see you departing peacefully. "

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