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Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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