"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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"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."
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"But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next."
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"God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion."
-Desmond Tutu
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"The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated."
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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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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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"I've always known I wanted a family."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
-Bob Geldof
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