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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. Desmond Tutu

Love God Great Religion Love Is Conflict Too Side Any Confined

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons. Desmond Tutu

Others He Because Person Persons

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities. Ivan Glasenberg

You People Opportunities Important Own Luck Think Say Ensure Miss May Create Working Your Working Hard Hard Many

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. Nelson Mandela

Freedom Fight Communism Active Correspond Would Objects Colonial Long-Term Countries Because Always Role Movements Short-Term Communists Played

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. Nelson Mandela

Women Men Men And Women Society Enormous Positions Distinctive Has-Been Development Towards Been Contribution Hold Who Many Whose

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. Nelson Mandela

Love Peace Laughter AIDS Give Child

The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills. Steven Biko

Spiritual Oppression Problem Poverty Exploitation White Enough Complex Has-Been Bad Deliberate More Fact Supremacy Coupled Tied Makes Material Been Up Want Apartheid Much Capitalist

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever. Dave Matthews

Time Too Late Will Girl Wrong Time Fall Too Other Late Temporarily Guy Point Wrong Another Friends Forever Maybe Just Each

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. Desmond Tutu

Education Inclusive Equitable Dynamic Foundation Societies

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? Desmond Tutu

God People Amazing Made Diversity His Much Among Image

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency. Desmond Tutu

You Confidence Peace Courage Hate Enemy Leader Sit Own Down Considerable Must Guy Most Talk Because Very Where Your

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed. Elon Musk

Future Humanity Would Would-Be Mars Lifetime Disappointed Very Land

Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death. J. M. Coetzee

Life Love Death World South Africa Busy Indifferent Bleeding Sore Narrow-Minded Israel Lebanon South Ireland Same Africa Wherever Fanatics Body

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. Miriam Makeba

Truth People World Political South Africa Everybody Tell Admit About My Truth Wrong Come Know Becomes How South Did Just Africa Where Wanted Anything Apartheid Then Who Lived Now

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity. Steven Biko

Man Oppression Black Become Own Shadow Bearing Misery Drowning Shell His Timidity Yoke Ox Defeated Slave

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves. Steven Biko

Freedom Tired Game Man Witness Black Depend Independent Would Someone Blacks More Take Lead Him Himself His Want Themselves Should Granted Standing Things Playing

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. Steven Biko

Attitude Matter Reflection Black Mental Mental Attitude Being

We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior. Steven Biko

Made Superior South Africa Relationships Must Blacks Only Know Also South Inferior Same Human Africa Which Realize Prelude Whites Groups

We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people. Cyril Ramaphosa

Integrity People Build Decency Society Savings Resources Corporate Criminals Defined Plunder Determined Does Nor Ordinary Ordinary People Public Theft Tolerate

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. Desmond Tutu

Racism Burden Unfair Sold Beasts Bought Fellow Xenophobia Fellow Human Beings Were Discrimination Branded Owned Human Human Beings Spawned Many Beings Slavery

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