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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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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.
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Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
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I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, How would I have wanted to be treated?
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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God loved me before I actually was.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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Forgiving is not forgetting its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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