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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
Desmond Tutu
God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
Desmond Tutu
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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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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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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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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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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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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The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
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Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
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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.
Desmond Tutu
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
Desmond Tutu
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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