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- 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…
- It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
- 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.
- Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
- 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…
- The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after…
- 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…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
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