"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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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

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Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

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"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."

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"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."

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"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

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"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems."

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"You must show the world that you abhor fighting."

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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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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

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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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