Desmond Tutu Quotes
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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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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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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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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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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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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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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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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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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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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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.