A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons. -Bishop Desmond Tutu

 

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.


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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. -Bishop Desmond Tutu
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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Full houses at the Assembly Rooms. To keep Michele sweet. That's basically it. -Bishop Desmond Tutu
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We in Africa wonder: Can the world outside see the human beings -- or the potential partners -- behind the unrelenting despair?

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