Desmond Tutu Quotes About Peace
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
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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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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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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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