So I never doubted that ultimately we were going to be free, because ultimately, I knew there was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
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Aphorisms by Desmond Tutu
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative, not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
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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.
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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.
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
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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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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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