I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than...

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than...

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books,...

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books,...

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves,...

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves,...

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books,...

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books,...

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and...

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and...

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as...

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as...

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it...

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it...

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned...

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear....

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear....

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites...

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites...

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride,...

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride,...

If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is...

If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is...

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of...

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of...

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two...

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...