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Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pt. 11.

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Terence. Eunuchus [The Eunuch]. 161 BC, Megalesian Games, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 7.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Tertullian

Ad Scapulam

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Tertullian. Ad Scapulam [To Scapula]. c. 217, ch. 2.

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Augustine of Hippo. Confessiones [Confessions]. c. 398, bk. 10, ch. 27.

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Augustine of Hippo. Confessions, translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin. Penguin Classics, 1961, bk. 10, ch. 27.

Truth does not blush.

Tertullian

Against the Valentinians

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Tertullian. Adversus Valentinianos [Against the Valentinians]. c. 207 CE, sect. 3.

There is no salvation outside the Church.

Saint Cyprian

Letter to Jubaianus

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Saint Cyprian. Letter to Jubaianus, Concerning the Baptism of Heretics. c. 250.

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Saint Cyprian. "Letter 73: Rebaptism: the Novatian Dimension." On the Church: Select Letters, translated by Allen Brent. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2006.

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Terence. Ἑαυτὸν τιμωρούμενος [Heuton Timoroumenous]. c. 163 BC, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 2.

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Tutu, Desmond. God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time. Doubleday, 2004.

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Terence. Ἑαυτὸν τιμωρούμενος [Heuton Timoroumenous]. c. 163 BC, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 6.

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Tutu, Desmond. No Future Without Forgiveness. Doubleday, 1999.

Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

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Tutu, Desmond. God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time. Doubleday, 2004.

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Tertullian. De Testimonio Animae [The Testimony of the Soul]. c. 198, ch. 6.

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Tutu, Desmond. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report. Vol. 1, The Commission, 1998, foreword.

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Nkrumah, Kwame. Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1967.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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Gordimer, Nadine. "Leaving School—II." London Magazine, May 1963.

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Nkrumah, Kwame. "Motion of Destiny." Revolutionary Path. Panaf, 1973. Originally an address called "Motion of Destiny." Gold Coast National Assembly. 10 July 1953, Accra, Ghana.

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Biko, Steve. "White Racisim and Black Consciousness." Jan. 1971, Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

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Biko, Steve. "Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity." I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, edited by Aelred Stubbs. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TED, July 2009, https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcript?language=en.

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Kenyatta, Jomo. Facing Mount Kenya. Secker and Warburg, 1938, conclusion.