Wisdom Quotes
Quotations to challenge and inspire

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Bishop Desmond Tutu Quotes

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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

- Bishop 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.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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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.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that "summum bonum," the greatest good.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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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.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

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