Quote by 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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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu

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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu

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In many ways, when youre a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. – Desmond Tutu

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You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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I never will have peace of mind. Im not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible. – Julie Christie

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. – Peace Pilgrim

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