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Them Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
- When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
- I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them…
- I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone,
- Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We…
- The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of…
- Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the…
- One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- 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…
- 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,…
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- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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