Desmond Tutu Quotes
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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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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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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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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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.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.