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Small: Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
"Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this"
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader
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Small: So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
"So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country"
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader
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Small: I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
"I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me"
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader
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Small: For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
"For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election"
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader
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Small: It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now
"It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really e
"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work togethe
"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to app
"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see
"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world
"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change peoples ways. If you must ch
"Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls
"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career
"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than
"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: I believe I can sing anything
"I believe I can sing anything"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I co
"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home
"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on
"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so
"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources"
Miriam Makeba, Musician
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Small: You dont choose your family. They are Gods gift to you, as you are to them
Desmond Tutu
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: Without forgiveness, theres no future
Desmond Tutu
"Without forgiveness, there's no future"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in
Desmond Tutu
"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"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycle
Desmond Tutu
"What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: We would like to see you departing peacefully
Desmond Tutu
"We would like to see you departing peacefully"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite
Desmond Tutu
"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor they are here for what they get ou
Desmond Tutu
"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"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly
Desmond Tutu
"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"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together
Desmond Tutu
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she
Desmond Tutu
"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has i
Desmond Tutu
"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"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum
Desmond Tutu
"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking
Desmond Tutu
"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, Leader
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Small: Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world
Desmond Tutu
"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expo
Desmond Tutu
"Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity
Desmond Tutu
"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity
Desmond Tutu
"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons
Desmond Tutu
"A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: You must show the world that you abhor fighting
Desmond Tutu
"You must show the world that you abhor fighting"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
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Small: Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them"
Olive Schreiner, Writer
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Small: Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn
"Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn"
Olive Schreiner, Writer
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