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"44 Desmond Tutu Quotes & Sayings

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Born: October 7, 1931 | Clergyman | Leader |

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Little Good World Overwhelm
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Forgiveness Future Without
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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Coming God Know Next
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Appreciate Elephant Foot Injustice
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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.

Africa Bible Closed Eyes
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Humanity Need Nice Rediscover
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Allow Vaccum Nature Default
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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.

Abundant Africa Cheap Favor
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Choose Family Gift God
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Because Others Recognizes Person
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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.

God Heaven Quite Sinners
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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.

Attribute Young Biological Birth
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Abhor Fighting Show World
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Bound Human Humanity Together
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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?

Benefit Black Elite Empowerment
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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.

Across Africa Appeal Countries
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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.

Capacity Children Expose Extraordinary
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God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Compassion Dream Family God
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Confined Conflict God Great
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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Children Christian Different Faiths
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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.

Bottom Society Country Split
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Eternal Freedom Price Vigilance
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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.

Become Children God Patient
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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
Deliver Quite Take Universe
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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.

Acknowledging After Die Felt
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Humankind Laureate Nobel Obligation
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Being Certainly Prayers Fact
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Popular Prefer Think Unpopular
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

Fact Many People Quite
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Being Darkness Despite Hope
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Wish Shut Could
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Bow Committed Europe Head
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Africa Blessing Like Man
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Enemies Friends Peace Talk
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Confidence Considerable Courage Down
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Another Beginning Chance Forgiveness
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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.

African Case Church Community
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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Amazing Diversity God Image
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Atrocities Beings Capacity Evil
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Biased Despised Favor God
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In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Bible Bunch Encounter First
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Compassion Truths Goodness Live
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Acts Extraordinary Hope Human
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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Characterized Diversity Inhabit Universe
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Desmond Tutu Quotes & Sayings