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Desmond Tutu


South African
October 7, 1931
Leader
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.


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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.


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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.


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Tags: Take While Quite
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.


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Tags: You World Must
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.


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Tags: You Need Nice
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.


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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.


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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.


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Tags: God Family You
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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Tags: God People Being
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
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I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
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Tags: Peace Think Going
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
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Tags: You People Will
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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Tags: Because He Person
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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