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Desmond Tutu Quotes

South African - Leader | October 7, 1931 -

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

Family God Gift You Choose Your

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Hope Light Darkness See Being Able

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

Forgiveness New Beginning Beginning

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.

History Elephant Appreciate Injustice

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.

Family God Compassion You Dream Us

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

Peace Friends You Want Talk Enemies

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

Inspirational Good Together World

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

Smile God Know Next Coming Because

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.

God Children Evil Country Africa

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Forgiveness Sun Window You Windows

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

Life Inspirational Love Hope Value

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.

Eyes Religion Bible Said Land Us

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