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For perhaps the first time in history, we have the resources, the know-how and the technology to make starvation and dependency relics of the past. But do we have the will?

— Desmond Tutu

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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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

I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period.

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches (1984)

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If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.

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