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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. "

" 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. "

" And every human being is precious. "

" 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. "

" When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. "

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

" 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. "