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Desmond Tutu has 270 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only…
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When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying…
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction,…
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My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
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Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be…
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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news…
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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
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Dream! Dream! And then go for it!
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We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is…
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The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the…
— Du Mu
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If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.…
— Dennis McKinsey
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If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness…
— Confucius
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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the…
— Confucius
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The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by…
— Arthur Seyss-Inquart
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Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being…
— Desmond Tutu
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There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who…
— Jimmy Carter
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The Orphan is not he who has lost his father, an orphan is he who lacks knowledge, refinement, good manners, morals, decorum,…
— Anas
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing…
— Marquis De Sade
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