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World Quotes by Desmond Tutu

44 World quotes by Desmond Tutu

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South Africa shines as a beacon of hope in a troubled world. One quote reminds us that a person becomes who they are through other people, and that leaders often rise from difficult lives. Another thought encourages dreaming of a world without poverty and where right eventually wins.

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The world needs a revolution led by women.

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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

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We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

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

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Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

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

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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

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If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

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I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in…

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You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for…

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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who…

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Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about…

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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come…

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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into…

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Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of…

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As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,…

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You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for…

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We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect…

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Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing…

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There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts…

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I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.…

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A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how…

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One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that…

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There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth…

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We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be…

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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

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Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a…

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The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

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South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

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I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world…

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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…

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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

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Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves…

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I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make…

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Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part…

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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's,…

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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because…

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Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic…

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I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit…

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Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says…

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black…

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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an…

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and…

“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.”

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate…

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.