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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. "
Desmond Tutu
Too
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Religion
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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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" Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems. "
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" When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. "
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" I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. "
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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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" Without forgiveness, there's no future. "
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" I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. "
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" In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. "
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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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" In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. "
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" We would like to see you departing peacefully. "
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" You must show the world that you abhor fighting. "
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" In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. "
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" The universe can take quite a while to deliver. "
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" Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. "
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" For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. "
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" Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. "
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" Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. "
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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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" And every human being is precious. "
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" I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. "
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" I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people. "
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" I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB. "
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" When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. "
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" You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders. "
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" I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. "
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" If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. "
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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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" Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy. "
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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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