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Desmond Tutu

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


— Desmond Tutu


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


— Desmond Tutu


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Without forgiveness, there's no future.


— Desmond Tutu


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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.


— Desmond Tutu


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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.


— Desmond Tutu


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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.


— Desmond Tutu


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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.


— Desmond Tutu


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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.


— Desmond Tutu


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


— Desmond Tutu


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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.


— Desmond Tutu


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Did you know about Desmond Tutu?

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. He was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.

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