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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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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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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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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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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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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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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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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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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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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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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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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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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
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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.