South African - Leader | October 7, 1931 -
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond Tutu
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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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.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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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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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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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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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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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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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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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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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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