Desmond Tutu Quotes

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Desmond Tutu

Profession : Leader

Birth : October 7, 1931

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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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.

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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.

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For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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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.

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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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