Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams quote: "So when we think about the future, how to build a healthy humanity, we really have to think about how we create a new generation of citizens with a different kind of mind-set. Here education is really the key. Christianity has wonderful teachings, so does Buddhism, but these teachings and approaches are not sufficient. Now secular education is universal. So now we must include in formal education of our youth some teaching of compassion and basic ethics, not on the basis of religious belief but on the basis of scientific findings and our common sense and our universal experience. ... to educate children about the value of compassion and the value of applying our mind."

Perhaps our synagogues, our temples, and our churches," Archbishop Tutu added, "are not as welcoming...
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We are part of the same society. We are part of the same humanity. When humanity is happy, we will b...
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I asked what we must do about intolerance and fanaticism which was flaring all around the world. "Ed...
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We stand firm against the wrong not only to protect those who are being harmed but also to protect t...
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So irrespective of our beliefs, we are all the same human beings. We all want a happy life.
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Everybody wants a happy life - and our individual happy life depends on a happy humanity. So we have...
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I think maximum lifespan is about a hundred years. Compared to human history, a hundred years is qui...
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... I would forget that I'm just talking as a human being to fellow human beings. I would think of m...
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So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished othe...
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Love is the absence of judgment.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for...
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt th...
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There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter w...
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To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or no...
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
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If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
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If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no...
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he...
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our ow...
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your ro...
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If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their...
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Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I a...
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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and hap...
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own g...
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Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
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Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
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Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if ...
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day ar...
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Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
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Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for e...
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NEVER GIVE UP
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too muc...
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We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received
wisdom. But we cannot escape th...
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To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a ...
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Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in ...
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Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving t...
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The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.
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If we think only of ourselves, forget about other people, then our minds occupy very small area. Ins...
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Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the u...
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt ...
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All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their ...
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into ...
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This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, ...
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afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main mind...
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The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
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When life becomes too complicated and we feel overwhelmed, it’s often useful just to stand back an...
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Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans t...
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-...
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A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
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Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a ...
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if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings. If not, at least refrain from harming them. I...
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I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is no...
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If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
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Jei su aplinkiniais elgiamės draugiškai ir pasikliaudami, patys nurimstame ir atsipalaiduojame. Me...
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The purpose of religion is to
control yourself, not to criticise
others.
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Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer a...
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Körperliche Ertüchtigung ist sehr nützlich, aber das geistige Training ist ebenso wichtig.
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You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop...
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Whilst on the subject of the spread of Buddhism in the West, I want to say that I have noticed some ...
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Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each othe...
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Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but...
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I t...
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Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance
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The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialisti...
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Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for ou...
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I asked the Dalai Lama what it was like to wake up with joy, and he shared his experience each morni...
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Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kind...
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Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is ins...
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...I discovered a small kitten in the garden, which apparently had been abandoned by its mother. I p...
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Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings...
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The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our abilit...
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Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or c...
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You are so anxious about the future that you do not enjoy the present. You therefore do not live in ...
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Because we all share
an identical need for love,
it is possible to feel that
anybo...
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There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other ...
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If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do ...
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There is a Possibility of freedom from suffering. By removing the causes of suffering, it is possibl...
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If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it...
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If you want others to be happy practice compassion; and if you want yourself to be happy practice co...
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happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.
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However, if we can transform our attitude towards suffering, adopt an attitude that allows us greate...
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No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier thr...
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Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even few...
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Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we b...
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.-Dalai Lama
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
DESMOND TUTU

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most...
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us p...
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world i...
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overw...
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity amo...
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of i...
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that so...
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the g...
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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don'...
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. ...
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm...
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I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so ...
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I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constra...
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made fo...
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in un...
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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known ...
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil -...
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divi...
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people ar...
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've...
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and...
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the ...
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A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened ...
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If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm ...
DESMOND TUTU

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the w...
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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's c...
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We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things a...
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
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Sometimes people think (that) to see that we are family is to be sentimental. But one has to say: Th...
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Full houses at the Assembly Rooms. To keep Michele sweet. That's basically it.
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The World Cup will be more than just a football tournament
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We call on the international community, which was so tremendous in its fight against another epidemi...
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« Si vous êtes neutre dans les situations d'injustice, vous avez choisi le camp de l'agresseur. ...
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Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of thi...
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to societ...
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We in Africa wonder: Can the world outside see the human beings -- or the potential partners -- behi...
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My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not a...
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards ...
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were F...
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because...
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - par...
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to ...
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Without forgiveness, there's no future
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much ...
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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action...
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We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
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Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

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