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Desmond Tutu Quotes: We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.
         

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.


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

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You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.



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



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



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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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