Tag: Desmond Tutu
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu
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In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Desmond Tutu
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Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
Desmond Tutu
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And every human being is precious.
Desmond Tutu
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Desmond Tutu
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
Desmond Tutu
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
Desmond Tutu
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu