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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.
An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.
You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.
There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.