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Desmond Tutu Inspirational Quotes (278)

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God says, Please, please help me realize this dream. And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.
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Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
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I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
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There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.
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Restorative justice says No, the offense affected a relationship and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
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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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One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
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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 good news to a hungry person is bread.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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