Quote by Desmond Tutu
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the b

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. – Desmond Tutu

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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – 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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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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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. – R. D. Laing

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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. – Alexander McCall Smith

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