"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." — Desmond Tutu
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
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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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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
— Edward Abbey
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
— Roseanne Barr
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities…
— Alan Barth
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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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I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment…
— Thomas Browne
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That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible…
— Learned Hand
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There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all…
— Anne Hathaway
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Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience…
— Warren G. Bennis
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America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
— Henry Steele Commager
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[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the…
— H. L. Mencken
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