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Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
South Africa - Theologian
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or withi...
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something th...
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
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You dont choose your family. They are Gods gift to you, as you are to them.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone wh...
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We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government spea...
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell th...
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will cras...
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His ...
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart o...
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.
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He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave...
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