Desmond Tutu Quotes
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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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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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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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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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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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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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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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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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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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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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
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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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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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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.