Desmond Tutu Quotes
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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
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For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.