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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?

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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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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, Do you remember what happened to you? Then they clobber you and say, You are anti-Semitic.
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I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.
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Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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