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How many kids are there

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in this room?

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Could I see your hands?

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I would dedicate this presentation

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to every child in this room,

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including the child in you,

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and the children around the world.

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So I want you to pay attention

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to this person standing here

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What does it mean to be different?

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To find the answer to this really profound question,

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I decided to ask the guru

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of all gurus,

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Google.com

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I googled the question

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and voila! I got the answer.

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However, there was a problem

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because I got somewhere around

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410,786,434 pages only.

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So, since we have less time

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I will compress it into one single sentence

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like my figure.

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And this is what I got.

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When you have CBL:

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two or more cultures, beliefs, lifestyles,

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or when you have VOP:

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views, opinions, perceptions,

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that is when you have difference.

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Now, if you look at me

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I have a few tatoos on my body,

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just one extended, one really large.

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Now, you might think I'm different from you,

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but I'm just like you.

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I eat, I sleep, I laugh, I cry.

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How many of you do that?

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Mashallah, we are the same.

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I also have this hobby of reading books,

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writing articles and being on Facebook.

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How many of you do that?

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Mashallah, we are the same.

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And guess what, I have a few dreams.

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I would like to have long hair,

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although it doesn't seem to be working.

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I'd like to touch the lives of many people.

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And when I die, I want to die fast.

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How many of you would like that?

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Okay, a few less hands.

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But when people look at me,

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this is the expression they give.

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(Laughter)

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It's like, I'm walking to the grocery

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and totally --

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I mean, I'm like,

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"Whoa, relax, chill dude."

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And people have baptized me

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with those wonderful names.

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Let me give you a few:

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smoker, drinker, even a drug adict,

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guy who drives a Harley,

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gangster, a wrestler,

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undertaker's brother and a heavy metal freak.

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Yeah.

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And the latest one to top the chart,

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I've got this one:

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(Roars)

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You should see people

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when they come into the lift and see me.

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Oh, my!

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Now, to your bad news,

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I don't smoke, I don't drink,

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I don't drive a Harley,

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instead I love playing with kids.

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I love children and children love to play with me.

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But you should see the parents

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when they see me

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with their kids.

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They go like,

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"Uh, let's take him."

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Hey, what's the difference?

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What is the difference?

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I'm a speaker, writer,

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I'm a person who loves to read books.

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I'm just like you.

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Forget me.

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How many other people do we judge,

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even before we know them?

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Have you ever thought about it?

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The funny thing is

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because all this experiences

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I've come up with this new theory

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that it hurts.

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It hurts when you judge other people.

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It hurts when you deprive someone

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of their dreams,

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of their goals,

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of even a promotion,

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because you categorize them into different boxes.

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And it hurts

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when you teach your children

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something that is not true.

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Because of the experiences in my life

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I came up with this new theory

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and by the way, it's copyright.

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I call it The Loy's Theory of Eggs.

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As for this profound theory,

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we human beings are like eggs.

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Different shapes, sizes and colors.

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Some of them are really very big,

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some medium, some really very small.

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But my theory states:

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All of us eggs are equal.

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Give a round of applause.

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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No, my presentation is not over.

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One of them just got up, relax.

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So as I was saying,

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we all eggs are equal.

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If you want proof, do this.

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Break an egg.

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What do you get?

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The same stuff inside.

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But you get some people here

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who categorize human beings

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like they categorize eggs,

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region or country.

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You get them dividing people like

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good quality, bad quality.

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By one, get two free.

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What's wrong with people?

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But try doing this.

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Give this small child a dozen eggs,

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different colors.

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For that child an egg is just an egg.

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And nothing was made more evident to me

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than the time when I was at the airport

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waiting for my flight, daydreaming,

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thinking of those romantic thoughts.

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And then it happened.

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Someting started scratcing my hand.

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I looked down and I saw this.

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A small baby girl apparently thought

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I was a walking-coloring book

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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and she actually started coloring me up.

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Now, I decided to show her the angry look.

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And I showed her --

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She gave me her look.

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And then I was like, I have to tell her.

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"Oh, it's okay, relax.

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How about coloring this?"

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And she was very happy.

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She started going higher and higher.

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And before I knew it

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two of her friends came running by

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and all three started coloring me up.

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Now picture this,

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a big tatooed guy and three babies

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coloring him up.

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In fact, a lot of people got

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a lot of photographs of it for free.

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But they didn't judge me.

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The thing about children is

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for them, everything is like

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a sense of curiosity and wonder.

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They never, ever judge anyone.

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Have you ever tried giving a child a book?

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The child will open the pages,

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try to read the book.

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If not possible, eat it.

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But a child never judges a book by its cover.

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I really wonder:

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Why do we grown-ups lose that sense of mischief?

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In fact during the break --

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Is Ali in the house? Ali, where are you?

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Is Ali somewhere here?

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Okay, there are a couple of Alis.

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Ali asked me this beautiful question.

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And I admire his courage for it.

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He said, "Hey dude,

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when you start looking like this,

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how would you not expect someone to judge you?"

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I mean how much of media does it take

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for us to change opinions

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or form opinions about other people?

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Try doing this.

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Take a group of children,

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put them here.

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From different cultures, communities, religions.

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Put them here.

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And do the same with adults.

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You'd see a difference here,

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and you'd see a difference here.

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The reason is

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because someone out there is giving you information

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which is not true.

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And for us, we are comfortable

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to hide within our comfort zone

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and judge others.

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I believe that every human being here

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is equal.

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I believe that

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when you categorize people through their CBL,

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cultures, beliefs, lifestyles,

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or even VOPs,

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views, opinions or perceptions

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you are comitting a sin.

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Including when you judge someone with tatoos.

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My dear friends, this is just color.

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When I die, I'm going six feet underground

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and most of you are gonna join me.

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So why the differentiation

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between me or anyone else.

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So that is where I would conclude.

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As I conclude, this is the message I give to all of you:

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We are all born different,

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to different fathers and mothers

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but we are all the same.

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We are all sisters, we are brothers.

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We all have a pair of limbs,

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eyes, ears, nose and mouth.

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We all look the same.

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Be from far East, the West, North or South.

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When we are all the same,

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why do we hate, fight and cry.

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Instead, let's pray for one another

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under this vast beautiful blue sky.

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Every waking day, bless each and everyone,

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by the cool summer breeze or the warmth of the sun.

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Look at each and everyone

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through the eyes of a child.

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Hold each other close

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through prayers, powerful, yet mild.

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Take those baby steps like walking.

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And do this one small thing.

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No more wars will be fought.

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Songs of victory we will sing.

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Let's become like little children,

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this is the message that I bring.

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For this child here, you all,

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every person here,

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every child in the world

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is truly

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the beauty of small things.

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(Applause)