"There comes a point where we need to……" — Desmond Tutu
"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in."
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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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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
— Saint Augustine
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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