Quote by Desmond Tutu
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the

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. – Desmond Tutu

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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. – Desmond Tutu

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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. – Desmond Tutu

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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. – Georg Trakl

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Every man for himself and God for us all. – Proverb

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The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. – Alexander Hamilton

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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. Its not enough, but it helps. – Dick Gregory

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