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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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" Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. "

Desmond Tutu

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Revenge

Man

" It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. "

Desmond Tutu

Man

Blessing

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Desmond Tutu

You

God

" You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders. "

" We would like to see you departing peacefully. "

" Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. "

" How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? "

" The universe can take quite a while to deliver. "

" Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. "

" 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. "

" Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. "

" We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity. "

" Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. "

" You must show the world that you abhor fighting. "

" Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy. "

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

" 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. "

" I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. "

Desmond Tutu

Sympathy

Someone

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "