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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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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.
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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