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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.

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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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My vote is my secret.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
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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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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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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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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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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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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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