Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Quote by Desmond Tutu
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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Desmond Tutu Quotes
- In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
- Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
- Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
- It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
- 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.
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.
- The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
- I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.
- Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
- I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
- A great mind becomes a great fortune.
- Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
- I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
- I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- An idea is salvation by imagination.