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There is room for multiple approaches to the same end: peace. I choose to use my fame and platform to be a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep conversations open, not closed. If we only focus on shouting the loudest, nothing will ever change. There are different approaches to being an advocate for change.

— Ed Sheeran, in an Instagram statement about the decision to drop Macklemore from his tour, explaining his stance on politics and peace.

A fair world begins with a fair map.

— Togolese Foreign Minister Robert Dussey, speaking to Reuters ahead of the UN vote

We have been fed with propaganda by Russia to such an extent that we didn't even realize it.

— Laura Loomer; she spoke about the impact of Russian propaganda and how she and others had been affected.

the wrongdoing must attain the level of ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’.

— Judge John Murphy, explaining the standard for wrongdoing in the impeachment inquiry.

You go to the MK [uMkhonto weSizwe] Party, which is led by a bandit, and you go to the EFF, which is led by a bandit called Julius, to tell us that a president who is not a bandit is a bandit.

— Collen Malatji, ANC Youth League president, at a briefing on Tuesday; responding to calls for Ramaphosa to resign