"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace……" — Desmond Tutu
"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."
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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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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
— John Adams
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
— Theodore Bikel
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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a…
— Tony Blair
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
— Buzz Aldrin
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The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand…
— Norman Cousins
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I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind,…
— Harry Belafonte
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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The…
— Frank Herbert
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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the…
— Gary Snyder
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and,…
— Sylvia Earle
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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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