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You Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail…
- Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
- If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness,…
- Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining…
- How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
- Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
- You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
- Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down…
- In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
- God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
- When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
- You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
- The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after…
- For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is…
- When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South…
- Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
- We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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