"I want my commitment to ending girl marriage……" — Desmond Tutu

"I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid."

— Desmond Tutu

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267 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu has 267 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be…
When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead…
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments…
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be…
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the…
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be…
Dream! Dream! And then go for it!
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about.…

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More Apartheid Quotes

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The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause… — Mahmoud Abbas
I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but… — Naomi Campbell
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the… — Nelson Mandela
Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer. — Audre Lorde
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about.… — Desmond Tutu
We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one… — Muhammad Yunus
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An… — Thabo Mbeki
We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries,… — Theodor Herzl
"We seem to have thought of everything - except the Arabs" — Judah Leon Magnes
If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming — Ahad Ha'am

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