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Desmond Tutu Quotes: Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
         

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.


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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.



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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.



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My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."





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