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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction we are already feeling the effects.
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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 can only be human together.
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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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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
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You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.
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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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