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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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Without forgiveness, without reconciliation, we have no future.
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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My father used to say: 'Don't raise your voice, improve your argument'.
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice.
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.
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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.
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We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
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There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
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Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Born:
October 7, 1931
Died:
December 26, 2021
(aged 90)
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