10 Quotes by Desmond Tutu about people


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    People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

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    If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

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    We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

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    People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

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