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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your...

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you...

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

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.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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