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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 misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
— Annie Besant
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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also…
— Carl Jung
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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for…
— Ronald Reagan
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The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we…
— George Eliot
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In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to…
— Carol Tavris
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Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them…
— Atul Gawande
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The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems…
— Desmond Tutu
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or…
— Virginia Woolf
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