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“Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.”

Desmond Tutu

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Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says…

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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

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We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black…

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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

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Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is…

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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an…

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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

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South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

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I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and…

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“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.”

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

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Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

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For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

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One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in…

Rupert Brooke

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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Hanif Kureishi

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the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root…

Pope John Paul II

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The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable…

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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

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The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.…

Wendell Berry

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The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private…

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A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

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