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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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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra…
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
— Jean Cocteau
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any…
— William Blake
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I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going…
— Jacqueline Cochran
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I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my…
— Og Mandino
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I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent…
— Julie Andrews
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I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well…
— Colin Hanks
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I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me…
— Faith Hill
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become.…
— Lloyd Alexander
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The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
— Rickey Henderson
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Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the…
— Unknown Author
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Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among…
— Koichi Tanaka
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