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

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. "

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" What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? "

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