South African - Leader | October 7, 1931 -
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.
Desmond Tutu
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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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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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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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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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