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Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
- 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.
- I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
- In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
- In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
- In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
- In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
- Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
- Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
- It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
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