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Quote by Desmond Tutu
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had

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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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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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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Nowhere is there an account or portrait of Christ laughing… he is always stern, serious and as gloomy as a prison guard. Never does one see him laughing until tears appear in his eyes like the roly-poly squint-eyed Buddha guffawing with arms upraised. – Author Unknown

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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx

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Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. – Ziggy Marley

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