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

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Choose Family Gift God Them You Your

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

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Topics: Able Being Darkness Despite Hope Light See

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

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Another Beginning Chance Forgiveness Given Make New New Beginning Says You

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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.

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Appreciate Chosen Elephant Foot Injustice Mouse Neutral Neutrality Oppressor Say Side Situations Tail Will You Your

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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

Topics: Compassion Dream Family God Goodness Made Realize Togetherness Us Will You

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

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Topics: Bound Human Humanity Only Together Up Yours

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

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Topics: Enemies Friends Peace Talk Want You Your

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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.

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Beasts Beings Bought Branded Burden Discrimination Fellow Human Human Beings Many Owned Racism Slavery Sold Unfair Were Xenophobia

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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Could Shut Shut Up Up Wish I Wish

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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

~Desmond Tutu

Topics: Characterized Diversity Inhabit Universe

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Leader

Born: October 7th, 1931

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