Poet Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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