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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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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Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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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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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
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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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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
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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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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
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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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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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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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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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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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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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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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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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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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