"As human beings we have the most extraordinary……" — Desmond Tutu
"As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities."
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267 Quotes by Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu has 267 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be…
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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.…
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In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called…
— Noam Chomsky
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We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
— Mike Newlin
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression,…
— Unknown Author
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we…
— Mark Twain
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity…
— Auberon Waugh
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... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human…
— Unknown Author
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Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose…
— Unknown Author
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