"Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything."

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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”

“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”

“I want a grown-up attitude to Cuba, for instance, a country and people I love. I want an end to the war immediately, and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and drive themselves out of Iraq. I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the US to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on. But most of all I want someone with the confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend", and this Obama has shown he can do.”

“We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?”

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