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

God, Family, Southafrican

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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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"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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"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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