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Thinking Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.
- I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
- I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing…
- History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven…
- Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals,…
- Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water…
- And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe…
- I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be…
- One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist…
- I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
- When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
- 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…
- A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or…
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