We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this … - Desmond Tutu

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Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

Desmond Tutu

We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

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