"If I diminish you, I diminish myself" — Desmond Tutu
"If I diminish you, I diminish myself"
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Desmond Tutu
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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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More Diminish Quotes
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one of 250 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
— Bernard Berenson
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the…
— William J. Clinton
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
— John C. Maxwell
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These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your…
— Neil L. Andersen
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
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Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm
— Sun Tzu
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to…
— Maya Angelou
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One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left…
— Sigmund Freud
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he…
— William E. Gladstone
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