Quotes
Authors
Desmond Tutu

"It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay."

Source : "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

Desmond Tutu

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“It's almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.”
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“I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time for us.”
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“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”

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