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No smell doth stink as sweet as labour, Tis joyous times when man and man Do work and sweat in common toil.When all the world’s my neighbor.

— Athol Fugard The Blood Knot (1961)

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"Sizwe Bansi, in a manner of speaking, is dead!"

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He's a white man and that's good enough for you.

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"You must understand this. We own nothing except ourselves. This world and its laws, allows us nothing except ourselves."

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It's the likes of you that kept the Inquisition in business. It's called bigotry."

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Tolstoy may have educated his peasants, but I've educated you.

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