“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

— Desmond Tutu · Courage quote

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Desmond Tutu quote card
Archbishop, anti-apartheid activist · 1931 – 2021

South African Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1984) who campaigned against apartheid.

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