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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: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Goalkeepers
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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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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.
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Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
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There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.
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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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