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Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew. — Desmond Tutu

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. — Desmond Tutu

I am because other people are. — Desmond Tutu

His hair is huge! ... Look! ... It's just sticking up at odd angles! Like a demented porcupine! - Desmond, about Fletcher's hair — Derek Landy

The unknown is the biggest question. — Desmond Howard

do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves. — Desmond Tutu

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls. — Desmond Green

To be impartial ... is indeed to have taken sides already ... with the status quo. — Desmond Tutu

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is. — Paul Desmond

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life. — Desmond Tutu

There can be no healing without truth. — Desmond Tutu

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for. — Desmond Tutu

Easy' is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. — Nancy Linn-Desmond

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace. — Desmond Tutu

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast. — Paul Desmond

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. — Desmond Tutu

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear. — Desmond Tutu

As we say in our African idiom, a person is a person through other persons. To dehumanize another inexorably means that one is dehumanized as well. — Desmond Tutu

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart. — Desmond Tutu

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. — Desmond Tutu

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good. — Desmond Tutu

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great. — Desmond Tutu

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong. — Desmond Tutu

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white. — Desmond Tutu

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath. — Desmond Tutu

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable — Desmond Tutu

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry.
It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. — Desmond Tutu

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. — Paul Desmond

See you in another life, brotha. — Desmond Hume

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. — Desmond Tutu

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless. — Nelson Mandela

I've got so much money it's ridiculous. — Richard Desmond

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence. — Arthur Desmond

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. — Desmond Tutu

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. — Desmond Tutu

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion. — Desmond Tutu

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it. — Desmond Tutu

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider. — Richard Desmond

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was. — Paul Desmond

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. — Desmond Tutu

God is not a diversion. — Desmond Tutu

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. — Desmond Tutu

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song. — Phoenix Desmond

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero. — Arthur Desmond

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God. — Desmond Tutu

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation. — Desmond Tutu

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in. — Desmond Tutu

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. — Gloria Swanson

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them. — Desmond Tutu

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. — Desmond Tutu

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. — Desmond Morris

Accept yourself, it will inspire others to do the same for themselves. — Desmond D. Green

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ... — Desmond Tutu

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice. — Desmond Tutu

From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals. — Desmond Green

Life was truly great and it was all because of me. — Desmond Ong

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth. — Arthur Desmond

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person. — Desmond Tutu

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid. — Desmond Tutu

And every human being is precious. — Desmond Tutu

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference. — Desmond Tutu

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. — Desmond Tutu

A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons. — Desmond Tutu

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes. — Desmond Morris

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. — Paul Desmond

The universe can take quite a while to deliver. — Desmond Tutu

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. — Desmond Seward

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves. — Desmond Tutu

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. — Matthew Desmond

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral — Desmond Tutu

Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things. — Matthew Desmond

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience. — John Desmond Bernal

Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another. — Phoenix Desmond

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought. — Arthur Desmond

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. — Desmond Tutu

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation. — Matthew Desmond

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God. — Desmond Tutu

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches. — Matthew Desmond

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? — Desmond Tutu

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. — Desmond Morris

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders. — Desmond Tutu

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school. — Desmond Dekker

I cannot help you. So, I will find you unworthy of help. — Matthew Desmond

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. — Desmond Tutu

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle. — Arthur Desmond

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. — Desmond Tutu

When you have your revenue streams set up the right way, you can be confident the dollars are rolling in no matter what — Desmond Ong

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. — Desmond Tutu

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before. — Desmond Tutu

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. — Desmond Tutu

It was not that low-income renters didn't know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them. — Matthew Desmond

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. — Desmond Tutu

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

We would like to see you departing peacefully. — Desmond Tutu

By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute. — Matthew Desmond