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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
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If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Human beings are fundamentally good.
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Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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