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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: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
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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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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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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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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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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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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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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 need other human beings in order to be human.
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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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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
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There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
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A person is a person through other persons you can't be human in isolation you are human only in relationships.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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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.
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Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
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One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
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