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Quote by Desmond Tutu
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And thats wher

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And thats 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. – Desmond Tutu

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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANCs military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. – 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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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. – Desmond Tutu

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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. – Katherine Anne Porter

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. – Clare Boothe Luce

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Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anais Nin

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