You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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

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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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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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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 menu of rights.

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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

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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.

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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

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You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

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