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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

" Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. "

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