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- We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
- If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
- I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed…
- Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'
- We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven.…
- And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves,…
- When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
- I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
- And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and…
- God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
- If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full…
- God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
- Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the…
- If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary,…
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