"It is by standing up for the rights……" — Desmond Tutu

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women… - Desmond Tutu

"It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men."

— 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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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the… — Jane Austen
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the… — Jane Austen
I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I… — Jensen Ackles
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's… — Jensen Ackles
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